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WESTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A western subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Western Malayo-Polynesian" is a kind of...):
Malayo-Polynesian; Polynesian (the branch of the Austronesian languages spoken from Madagascar to the central Pacific)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Western Malayo-Polynesian"):
Malay (a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Filipino; Philippine (official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages)
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