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Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian proper noun: a proposed common ancestor to the group of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.

Proper noun

Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

  1. A proposed common ancestor to the group of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.

Origin of Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

From proto- + Western Malayo-Polynesian.

Questions about Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

What does Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian mean?
Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian means a proposed common ancestor to the group of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
What part of speech is Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian?
Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian is a proper noun.

Words near Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian in the dictionary

  1. proto-vanadium
  2. proto-Venus
  3. Proto-Vietic
  4. Proto-Volta-Niger
  5. Proto-West Germanic
  6. Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian
  7. Proto-World
  8. Proto-Yeniseian
  9. Proto-Yeniseians
  10. Proto-Yukaghir
  11. protoacademic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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