Eastern MP languages

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Eastern MP languages are a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken across parts of eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, encompassing many of the Oceanic and related languages.

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Eastern MP languages canonical 1

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instanceOf Austronesian languages subgroup
language subgroup
alsoKnownAs Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
areCharacterizedBy distribution across eastern Indonesia and the Pacific
arePartOf wider Pacific linguistic area
areRelevantTo Austronesian comparative linguistics
historical linguistics of the Pacific
areSpokenBy Austronesian peoples
Pacific Islander populations
areStudiedIn Austronesian linguistics
contains many Oceanic languages
related non-Oceanic Austronesian languages
familyColor Austronesian
geographicDistribution Island Southeast Asia
linked to: Malay Archipelago

Pacific Islands
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
higherClassification Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
includes Oceanic languages
partOf Austronesian language family
spokenIn Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
eastern Indonesia
subgroupOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
typicalWordOrder SVO

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Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages alsoKnownAs Eastern MP languages