Map showing eight of nine primary branches of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayo-Polynesian_languages" class="extiw" title="en:Malayo-Polynesian languages">Malayo-Polynesian</a> subfamily of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages" class="extiw" title="en:Austronesian languages">Austronesian</a> languages, per Smith (2017).
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The only primary branch not shown on the map is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamorro_language" class="extiw" title="en:Chamorro language">Chamorro</a>, spoken in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Islands" class="extiw" title="en:Mariana Islands">Marianas</a> to the east of the Philippines.
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map based on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg" class="image"><img alt="Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg/50px-Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="36" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg/75px-Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg/100px-Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="729" data-file-height="521"></a> with information on primary branches extracted from <cite style="font-style:normal">Smith, Alexander D. (December 2017). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://muse.jhu.edu/article/677288">The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem</a>". <i>Oceanic Linguistics</i> <b>56</b> (2): 435–490. University of Hawai'i Press. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2017.0021">10.1353/ol.2017.0021</a>.</cite>.