The Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages are a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages within the Austronesian family, spoken across East Indonesia and the Pacific Islands, encompassing more than 700 languages. They form one half of the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian grouping alongside the more loosely defined Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, though some linguists dispute that Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian itself is a valid genealogical unit rather than a geographic cover term.
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Eastern Malayo-Polynesian groups the Oceanic and South Halmahera-West New Guinea branches within Malayo-Polynesian, itself the largest branch of Austronesian.
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1. Glottolog: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 565
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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