Proto-Austronesian
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Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
Aliases (1)
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian language
→
proto-language → reconstructed language → |
| belongsToLanguageFamily |
Austronesian language family
NERFINISHED
→
|
| hasApproximateHomeland |
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 |
Proto-Formosan
→
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED → |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
Austronesian alignment
→
verb-initial word order → |
| hasTimeDepth |
Neolithic period
→
|
| hasWritingSystem |
none
→
|
| isAncestorOf |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
→
Cebuano → Chamorro → Fijian → Formosan languages → Hawaiian → Ilocano → Indonesian → Javanese → Malagasy → Malay → Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED → Maori → Oceanic languages → Philippine languages → Rapa Nui → Samoan → Tagalog → Tongan → |
| studiedBy |
Otto Dempwolff
NERFINISHED
→
Paul Jen-kuei Li → Robert Blust → |
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Marquesic languages
("Proto-Austronesian language")
→
Marshallese language group ("Proto-Austronesian language") → Modern Javanese → Southern Luzon languages ("Proto-Austronesian language") → |
hasAncestor |