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Maˈlayo- used as combining form of Malay; chiefly in Malayo-Polynesian a., the designation of the race to which the Malays and most of the Polynesians belong, and of the group of allied languages including Malay and the Polynesian dialects.
1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 327, I shall term these people the Malayo-Polynesian..race. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 288/1 Their [sc. the Macassars'] language..belongs to the Malayo-Javanese group. 1878W. E. Cousins Malagasy Lang. in Trans. Phil. Soc. 303 The Malayo-Polynesian languages. Ibid. 426 ff. 1879A. H. Keane in A. R. Wallace Australasia 607 Papûans proper in the centre; Malayo-Papûans in the Indian Archipelago. 1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 188 The agglutinated adjuncts..may be almost wholly dispensed with, as in Malayo-Polynesian. 1887A. Featherman Social Hist. Races Mankind II. i. 251 The Malayo-Melanesians are the most important branch of the Melanesian stock. 1896A. H. Keane Ethnol. 285 The Negroid Malayo-Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. Ibid. 331 Semi-cultured and rude Malayo-African populations. Ibid. 333 The Philippine half-castes may be roughly classed as..Malayo-Indonesians, Malayo-Europeans, and Malayo-Chinese. 1911Webster, Malayo-Negrito. 1933[see Austric a.]. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 35 A Creolized language, in this case a blend called Malayo-Portuguese, which was used by the whites in dealing with slaves. |