Talk:Malayo-Polynesian languages

message: The article says that "Western Malayo-Polynesian has about 300 million speakers", but the population of the Philippines (87million) and the population of Indonesia (242million) alone make 329 million.  Malaysia adds another 24 million on.  I know my method isn't scientific, but it seems there are more than 50 million people being ignored here.  I know there are pockets of non-WMP-language speakers, but these would only account for the few million which represent the "more than" in the above "more than 50 million".  So this leaves 50 million uncounted WMP speakers.  Any objections to changing 300 to 350? Gronky 00:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, I've made that change since it seems obvious - and no one has commented since I posted that question. Gronky 00:18, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The question is how to define "speaker". Ideally, it would be best to have two numbers (or, rather, rough estimates, as that's the best one can hope for): the number of native speakers, and the number of total speakers. 69.140.12.199 03:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How many speakers?

message: On 1 June 2006 User:Wai Hong in the section Ethnologue Classification changed the listing of the group Malayic to Malay. Malayic is the Ethnologue name for a group of 70 languages which are dived into five subsets, one of the subsets of Malayic is Malay with one language, another is Malayan with fortysix languages, and a third is Malayic-Dayak with ten languages.  I have restored the Ethnologue name.  Bejnar 20:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Malay vs. Malayic

message: Why is there, of all places a "Languages of Chile" template on this page? UncleMatt 00:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Easter Island is part of Chile, and its native language is Polynesian. --Krsont 19:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chile?

message: Need section detailing possible date and location of origin of this language group. Badagnani (talk) 03:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History/origin

message: This is really not my field. However, I am aware that Malayo-Polynesian languages have received influences from Tamil to English. Tamil seems especially relevant, I was informed. It seems relevant to include a sub-chapter where these influences have been most felt. Politis (talk) 08:44, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Other influences

message: The list of subdivisions in the infobox, the groups shown in the map, and the text in the body of this article are all mutually inconsistent. I realise that classification within MP remains a contested topic but I think all of this conflicting information is likely to confuse the reader when presented in this way. Ordinary Person (talk) 05:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I totally agree. The worst thing is, not just this article but many others about the individual languages and lower-order branches of Malayo-Polynesian lean heavily on a controversial subgrouping hypothesis (NMP), that is not even properly cited in most articles: almost all articles cite as source the editors Wouk and Ross, but not the author of the actual paper. Anyway, I think WP as an enzyclopedia in the first place should present the common consensus among scholars, and then can proceed to present major hypotheses in a subsection which is clearly marked as such. WP editors must be bold but not biased. I plan to gradually revamp the article in this direction, hopefully bringing back more "objectivity" (pls read this word cum grano salis!) to the way MP languages are represented in WP. Austronesier (talk) 13:20, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistency in subdivisions

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Mindoro is missing from the main map RedPanda25 14:49, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right, I've never noticed it (I wonder whether anyone did). Lubang and Marinduque are there, but no Mindoro in sight. It's crazy: for more than ten years, you find the same basic map in several articles, also in :Philippine languages. Hope someone amonng the page watchers versed in graphic editing can mend it. –Austronesier (talk) 19:33, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main map 

message: It's hardly 'south-west' of Micronesia. GMS. And the English ...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.248.160 (talk) 13:26, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Easter Island