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Javanese language

(Encyclopedia)Javanese language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Sundanese language

(Encyclopedia)Sundanese language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Tagalog language

(Encyclopedia)Tagalog language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Pilipino language

(Encyclopedia)Pilipino language, form of Tagalog used in the Philippines. See Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Austronesian

(Encyclopedia)Austronesian ôsˌtrōnēˈzhən, –shən [key], name sometimes used for the Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Bahasa Indonesia

(Encyclopedia)Bahasa Indonesia bähäˈsä [key], another name for Indonesian, one of the Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...

Australian languages

(Encyclopedia)Australian languages, aboriginal languages spoken on the continent of Australia. The Australian languages do not appear to be related to any other linguistic family. The exact number of these language...

Hamitic languages

(Encyclopedia)Hamitic languages, subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) ...

Paleosiberian languages

(Encyclopedia)Paleosiberian languages pāˌlēōsībērˈēən [key], also called Paleoasiatic or Hyperborean languages, family of languages spoken by about 15,000 indigenous inhabitants of Siberia. Of these, most ...

Munda languages

(Encyclopedia)Munda languages mo͝onˈdə [key], group of languages generally regarded as a subfamily of the Southeast Asian family of languages. See Southeast Asian languages. ...