indo-pacific

adjective

1. of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.

noun

2. a proposed linguistic family including all the non-Austronesian languages of the Pacific.

adjective

1. of or relating to the region of the Indian and W Pacific Oceans off the coast of SE Asia

noun

2. a hypothetical family of languages relating the languages of New Guinea other than Malayo-Polynesian. Tentative affiliations with Malayo-Polynesian or Australian languages have been suggested