Proto-Polynesian (abbreviated PPn) is the reconstructed proto-language from which all modern Polynesian languages descend. It is a descendant of the Proto-Oceanic...

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers)...

reconstructions have also been made, and include Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, Proto-Oceanic, and Proto-Polynesian. Recently, linguists such as Malcolm Ross and...

rise to Proto-Polynesian, the linguistic ancestor of all modern Polynesian languages. After that period of shared development, the Proto-Polynesian society...

bind up the canoe.' Proto-Polynesian language Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language Proto-Philippine language Pawley, Andrew (2007)...

in Proto-Philippine from the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language Proto-Oceanic language Proto-Polynesian...

Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) languages, also known as the Hesperonesian languages, are a paraphyletic grouping of Austronesian languages that includes...

Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) languages form a proposed branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages consisting of over 700 languages (Blust 1993). The...

Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayic Proto-Philippine Proto-Oceanic Proto-Central Pacific language Proto-Polynesian Proto-Admiralty...

Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are...

a language reconstructed as Proto-Polynesian – probably spoken in the Tonga and Samoa area around 1000 BC. Prior to the 15th century AD, Polynesian peoples...

most other proto-languages, Proto-Malayic was not attested in any prior written work. The most extensive study on the proto-language, Proto-Malayic: The...

Proto–Eastern Polynesian. Due to extensive borrowing from Tahitian there now often exist two forms for what was the same word in the early language....

Proto-Uralic is the unattested reconstructed language ancestral to the modern Uralic language family. The reconstructed language is thought to have been...

be driven out through strong medicines. In the reconstructed Proto-Polynesian language, the word "*qaitu" refers to a ghost, the spirit of a dead person...

(2003a:125) lists the following sound changes for Proto-Celebic and its subgroups. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian to Proto-Celebic *C1C2 > *C2 (C1 not nasal) *h > Ø...

O languages". Proto-Austronesian [1] [2] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [3] [4] Proto-Visayan language [5] Proto-Malayic language [6] Proto-Chamic language [7]...

Malayo-Polynesian The Malayo-Polynesian languages are—among other things—characterized by certain sound changes, such as the mergers of Proto-Austronesian...

very similar to the Proto-Polynesian language, so many words that are present in Polynesian languages are also in the Sikaiana language. For example, hale...

Polynesian languages, which are classified by linguists as part of the Oceanic subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian. They ultimately derive from the proto-Austronesian...

Palauan, Yapese, and the two Polynesian languages of Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi, which are only distantly related to Proto-Micronesian. With regards to...

dialects) and an eastern dialect (ancestral to eastern Fijian dialects and Proto-Polynesian). Later, the dialects that remained in Fiji converged back, eventually...

"canoe" in most Polynesian languages. It comes from Proto-Austronesian *abaŋ, meaning "ship" or "canoe". Cognates in other Austronesian languages include Ivatan...

other Polynesian languages. The sound system of Māori is conservative; it is close to the system the Proto-Central Eastern Polynesian language had. Most...

many of the genetically unrelated languages of Southeast Asia; for example, Tsat (a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group within Austronesian), and Vietnamese...

Tongan cultures, in most cases using a recognisably similar word (from Proto-Polynesian *tapu), though the Rotuman term for this concept is "ha'a". In Hawaii...

*bəŋaR → bangngaka "molar". Many Polynesian languages lost the original glottal stop *ʔ of their ancestor Proto-Polynesian, but then debuccalized other consonants...

Most Polynesian languages have lost the original proto-Polynesian glottal stop /ʔ/; however, it has been retained in Tongan and a few other languages including...

(1998). "Was Proto Oceanic Society matrilineal?". Journal of the Polynesian Society. 107 (4): 365–379. JSTOR 20706828. Marck, J. (2008). "Proto Oceanic Society...

other Polynesian vowels as there are /i e a o u/ long and short. More than half of the words used in the language hail from Proto Polynesian language. Stressed...