Western Malayo-Polynesian languages
Paraphyletic grouping of Austronesian languages
Western Malayo-Polynesian | |
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Geographic
distribution |
Southeast Asia and Madagascar |
Linguistic classification |
Austronesian
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ISO 639-5 | pqw |
Glottolog | None |
The Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) languages , also known as the Hesperonesian languages , are a paraphyletic grouping of Austronesian languages that includes those Malayo-Polynesian languages that do not belong to the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) branch. This includes all Austronesian languages spoken in Madagascar , Mainland Southeast Asia , the Philippines , Indonesia (the Greater Sunda Islands (including smaller neighboring islands), Bali , Lombok , the western half of Sumbawa ), Palau and the Mariana Islands .
Western Malayo-Polynesian was originally proposed by Robert Blust as a sister branch within Malayo-Polynesian coordinate to the CEMP branch. [1] Because there are no features that define the WMP languages positively as a subgroup, recent classifications have abandoned it. [2] [3]
References
- ↑ Blust, Robert. 1980. Austronesian Etymologies. Oceanic Linguistics 19, pp. 1-189
- ↑ K. Alexander Adelaar & Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: A historical perspective , pp. 1-42, London, Routledge ISBN 0-7007-1286-0
- ↑ Smith, Alexander D. (2017). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics . 56 (2): 435–490. doi : 10.1353/ol.2017.0021 . S2CID 149377092 .
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