| 单词 | Malayo-Polynesian |
| 例句 | But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z 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. Paul McCartney Wants You to Do One Thing for the Planet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z 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.” A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z The greater part of the population is negroid; the language spoken over the whole of the island and many institutions and customs are Malayo-Polynesian. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The inhabitants of this island are the last outpost of the Malayo-Polynesian race. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z In the lower parts of the archipelago, which are more accessible to the coast, will be found the descendants of an old Malayo-Polynesian race; these are characterized by their primitive industrial life. Oriental Women While Madagascar may be correctly termed "the great African island" as regards its geographical position, considered ethnologically, it is rather a Malayo-Polynesian island. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 It is astonishing how widely this Malayo-Polynesian speech has spread. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z An institution thoroughly suggestive of Malayo-Polynesian sociology is that of fadi or tabu, which enters into every sphere of human activity. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He was quite six feet in height, with a bright yellow skin, bronzed by the sun; and his straight features and long black hair were of the true Malayo-Polynesian type. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Most remarkable among its numerous forms are those American and Malayo-Polynesian versions of the “heaven-tree” story which Mr. Tylor has brought together in his “Early History of mankind.” Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore The inhabitants of the last-named cluster of islands are, as I have said, the most skilled fishermen of all the Malayo-Polynesian peoples with whom it has been my fortune to have come in contact. By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories This doctrine goes farther than the mere breaking-down of the lines of demarcation which separate classes of languages like the Australian from classes of languages like the Malayo-Polynesian. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 The Indios were the Christianized and more or less cultured populations of all the towns and of the settled agricultural districts, speaking a distinct Malayo-Polynesian language of much more archaic type than the standard Malay. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He was a fine specimen of the Maori race, the native New Zealanders, a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 |
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