Everything about Central Malayo-polynesian Languages totally explained
The
Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) linkage are a branch of
Austronesian languages. The are spoken in the
Lesser Sunda Islands and the
Moluccas of the
Banda Sea, in an area corresponding closely to the
Indonesian provinces of
East Nusa Tenggara and
Maluku and the nation of
East Timor (excepting the
Papuan languages of
Timor and nearby islands), but with the
Bima language extending to the eastern half of
Sumbawa Island in the province of
West Nusa Tenggara and the Sula languages of the
Sula archipelago in the southwest corner of the province of
North Maluku. The principal islands in this region are Sumbawa,
Sumba,
Flores, Timor,
Buru, and
Seram. The numerically most important languages are
Manggarai of western Flores and
Tetum, the national language of East Timor.
The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages are for the most part poorly attested, and it isn't certain that they constitute a coherent group. Many of the proposed defining features are not found in the geographic extremes of the area. Therefore some linguists have questioned the validity of the family, while others consider it a
linkage; a conservative classification might consider CMP to be a convenient term for the
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages which are not
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages (Grimes 1991). Indeed, languages in the east of Flores and nearby islands, especially the island of
Savu, have large amounts of apparently non-Austronesian basic vocabulary, and it's possible that that'll prove to not be Austronesian at all (Würm 1975).
Language groups
The languages groups considered Central Malayo-Polynesian are as follows, counter-clockwise from Sumbawa to Buru. Some of these may be geographic groupings.
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