Proto-Austronesian

E99741

Austronesian language proto-language reconstructed language

Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Proto-Austronesian canonical	16
Proto-Austronesian language	13

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austronesian language ⓘ proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ
belongsToLanguageFamily	Austronesian languages ⓘ surface form: Austronesian language family
hasApproximateHomeland	Taiwan, Province of China ⓘ surface form: Taiwan island Southeast Asia ⓘ
hasEstimatedDating	circa 4000–3000 BCE ⓘ
hasLexicalReconstruction	anak ‘child’ ⓘ baqeRu ‘new’ ⓘ inum ‘drink’ ⓘ ma-qatej ‘dead’ ⓘ ma-qatej ‘die’ ⓘ ma-qayaw ‘go up’ ⓘ pusa ‘cat’ ⓘ qabu ‘ash’ ⓘ qasu ‘smoke’ ⓘ qaya ‘what’ ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	affixation ⓘ focus system ⓘ reduplication ⓘ voice system ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive nasal consonants ⓘ contrastive stops ⓘ simple vowel system ⓘ
hasReconstructionMethod	comparative method ⓘ
hasResearchField	comparative Austronesian linguistics ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ
hasStatus	reconstructed ⓘ unattested ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Formosan languages ⓘ surface form: Proto-Formosan Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language ⓘ surface form: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
hasSyntacticFeature	Austronesian alignment ⓘ verb-initial word order ⓘ
hasTimeDepth	Stone Age ⓘ surface form: Neolithic period
hasWritingSystem	none ⓘ
isAncestorOf	Austronesian languages ⓘ Cebuano language ⓘ surface form: Cebuano Chamorro ⓘ Fijian languages ⓘ surface form: Fijian Formosan languages ⓘ Hawaiian ⓘ Ilocano language ⓘ surface form: Ilocano Indonesian ⓘ Javanese ⓘ Malagasy ⓘ Malay ⓘ Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ Māori ⓘ surface form: Maori Oceanic languages ⓘ Philippine languages ⓘ Easter Island ⓘ surface form: Rapa Nui Samoan ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ Tongan ⓘ
studiedBy	Otto Dempwolff ⓘ Paul Jen-kuei Li ⓘ Robert Blust ⓘ