Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family, proposed by Wouk & Ross (2002), that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi. They are called nuclear because they are the conceptual core of the Malayo-Polynesian family, including both Malay and Polynesian. Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian is found throughout Indonesia, apart from central Borneo, Sabah, and the north of Sulawesi, and into Melanesia and the Pacific. The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are defined as those which have abandoned the Austronesian alignment inherited from the syntax of the proto-Malayo-Polynesian language.