Malayo-Polynesian
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Example Sentences
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In the interview, McCartney also told Goldberg about his inspiration for writing the Beatles' song "Lady Madonna"—a National Geographic magazine photograph of a Malayo-Polynesian woman surrounded by three small children, one of them nursing.
From National Geographic
It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.
From Literature
Languages of the Malayan Peoples.—With the exception of the Negrito, all the languages of the Philippines belong to one great family, which has been called the “Malayo-Polynesian.”
From Project Gutenberg
An institution thoroughly suggestive of Malayo-Polynesian sociology is that of fadi or tabu, which enters into every sphere of human activity.
From Project Gutenberg
The inhabitants of this island are the last outpost of the Malayo-Polynesian race.
From Project Gutenberg
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