• Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the...
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  • the Austronesian language family. Proto-Oceanic is a descendant of the Proto-Austronesian language (PAN), the common ancestor of the Austronesian languages...
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    The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...
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  • Proto-Philippine language is a reconstructed ancestral proto-language of the Philippine languages, a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian languages which...
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  • the Proto-Oceanic language (the language associated with the Lapita civilization), itself a descendant of Proto-Austronesian. The homeland of Proto-Polynesian...
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    affixes in Austronesian languages Proto-Austronesian language Tsou language for an example of the unusual phonotactics of the Formosan languages Sinckan...
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  • Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan, as well as the Yami language on...
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    Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages. They also include indigenous ethnic minorities in Vietnam, Cambodia...
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  • category BC. Austro-Tai languages Old Chinese Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Hmong–Mien language Proto-Austroasiatic language Sagart, Laurent. 2019....
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  • Proto-Tai is the reconstructed proto-language (common ancestor) of all the Tai languages, including modern Lao, Shan, Tai Lü, Tai Dam, Ahom, Northern Thai...
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  • reconstructed for the ancestral Proto-Austronesian language. In the rest of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, including Proto-Oceanic, symmetrical voice was...
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  • Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayic Proto-Philippine Proto-Oceanic Proto-Central Pacific language Proto-Polynesian Proto-Admiralty...
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  • Sino-Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian is a proposed language family suggested by Laurent Sagart in 1990. Using reconstructions of Old Chinese...
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    /ˈmeɪleɪ/ MAY-lay; Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by Malays in several islands of Maritime Southeast...
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  • O languages". Proto-Austronesian [1] [2] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [3] [4] Proto-Visayan language [5] Proto-Malayic language [6] Proto-Chamic language [7]...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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    The Austric languages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands...
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    A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...
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  • Proto-Hmong–Mien (PHM), also known as Proto-Miao–Yao (PMY; Chinese: 原始苗瑶语), is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hmong–Mien languages. Lower-level reconstructions...
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    Austro-Tai languages, sometimes also Austro-Thai languages, are a proposed language family that comprises the Austronesian languages and Kra–Dai languages. Related...
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    agricultural community with an Austronesian-like language. The fusion of the two languages would have resulted in proto-Japanese and proto-Korean. In a typological...
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    language Proto-Kra language Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Proto-Tai language Sino-Austronesian languages Formosan ancestor of Tai–Kadai. Diller, Anthony...
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    pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter...
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  • Austronesian–Ongan is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Ongan and Austronesian language families. The proposal was first...
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    languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It includes Meto spoken on Timor and the languages of...
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  • Proto-Austroasiatic is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austroasiatic languages. Proto-Mon–Khmer (i.e., all Austroasiatic branches except for Munda)...
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    suggests that the Old Yue language, together with the proto-Austronesian language, was descended from the language or languages of the Tánshíshān‑Xītóu...
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  • to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages. It was first reconstructed in detail by Byron W. Bender in 2003. Proto-Micronesian is the ancestor...
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    Southern Tsouic within Nuclear Austronesian (the family of the various proto-Austronesian reconstructions), but the Tsou language as a more divergent branch...
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    Polynesian Triangle (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
    subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian. They ultimately derive from the proto-Austronesian language spoken in Southeast Asia 5,000 years ago. There are also numerous...
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