The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The languages are spoken in the Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands of the Banda Sea, an area corresponding closely to the Indonesian provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku and the nation of East Timor, with the Bima language extending to the eastern half of Sumbawa Island and the Sula languages spoken in the Sula archipelago of North Maluku. The principal islands in the region are Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, Buru and Seram; the numerically most important languages are Bima, Manggarai of western Flores, Uab Meto of West Timor and Tetum, the national language of East Timor.
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RegionLesser Sunda and Maluku Islands, Indonesia (East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) 1 Connections
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Why this is disputed. Central Malayo-Polynesian is a proposed branch grouping the Malayo-Polynesian languages of the Lesser Sundas and southern Moluccas; the coherence of the node itself is debated even though its membership in Malayo-Polynesian is not.
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1. Central Malayo-Polynesian languages - Wikipedia
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The languages are spoken in the Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands of the Banda Sea, in an area corresponding closely to the Indonesian provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku
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