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Proto-Oceanic is a descendant of the Proto-Austronesian language (PAN), the common ancestor of the Austronesian languages. Proto-Oceanic was probably spoken around the late 3rd millennium BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago, east of Papua New Guinea. [1] Archaeologists and linguists currently agree that its community more or less coincides with the ...
languages other than its descendants might support one hypothesis against the other. For example, if the merger/split question occurred in the re-construction of Proto-Oceanic, then one could appeal to evidence from non-Oceanic languages in support of the reconstruction of either two pho-nemes or one in Proto-Oceanic.
The Austronesian Languages And Proto-Austronesian was published in Linguistics in Oceania on page 5.
Proto-Khmeric language. The Proto-Khmeric language is the reconstructed proto-language of the Khmeric languages. It has been reconstructed by Sidwell & Rau (2015), whose reconstruction is based on the sound laws provided in Ferlus (1992). It is agreed by most scholars that this language was phased out by 300 CE.
Dec 31, 2006 · Austronesian is the largest well-established family in the world in terms of the number of languages, while also covering a huge area of the globe. It includes some very large as well as many very ...
in Austronesian Languages Robert Blust UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII This paper offers an overview of reconstructed faunal terms primarily at the Proto-Austronesian, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, and Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian levels, with some additional reconstructions at lower levels in the Austronesian family tree.
Proto-Central Pacific (abbreviated as PCP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Central Pacific languages. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages . It was first proposed by George W. Grace in 1959, [1] who also named the subgroup in 1967. [2]
