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Proto-Tsouic. Proto-Western Plains. Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify c. 4000 BCE – c. 3500 BCE in Taiwan. [1]
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The Austronesian languages ( / ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən /) are a...
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There are numerous terms for taro in the Austronesian languages, both specific and generalized. The reconstructed Proto-Austronesian term for taro is *cali, with cognates in Formosan languages including Seediq sali, Thao lhari; Bunun tai; and Amis tali. It became *taləs in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, which in turn became *talos or *talo in Proto ...
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Robert Andrew Blust The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Austronesian languages - Reconstruction, Change, Diversity: Proto-Austronesian (PAN) probably had a verb–object–subject (VOS) word order. Four PAN affixes are commonly recognized: *Si- marked instrumental focus (abbreviated IF), *-um- actor focus (AF), *-an locative focus (LF ...
Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scattered areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Taiwan.
In Austronesian languages: Grammar. Proto-Austronesian (PAN) probably had a verb–object–subject (VOS) word order. Four PAN affixes are commonly recognized: * Si- marked instrumental focus (abbreviated IF), * -um- actor focus (AF), * -an locative focus (LF), and * -en patient focus (PF). In addition, the infix * -in- marked completive (c ...
