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Reconstructed ancestor of the Admiralty Islands languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proto-Admiralty Islands (also known as Proto-Admiralty or Proto-Admiralties and abbreviated as PAdm) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Admiralty Islands languages of the Admiralty Islands, located in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages.
Proto-Admiralty Islands | |
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Proto-Admiralty, Proto-Admiralties, PAdm | |
Reconstruction of | Admiralty Islands languages |
Region | Admiralty Islands |
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Lower-order reconstructions |
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It was reconstructed by Robert Blust in 1978 who showed that the languages form a subgroup within Oceanic.[1] It was mentioned in detail by Malcolm Ross in 1998, who theorized a link with the two St. Matthias languages (Mussau and Tenis).
Proto-Admiralty Islands separated into two languages: Proto-Eastern Admiralty and Proto-Western Admiralty. Today, around thirty languages (see Admiralty Islands languages) make up the Admiralty Islands subgroup of Oceanic. It has been theorized that Yapese is a descendant or a sister language to Proto-Admiralty Islands.[2]
The consonants of Proto-Admiralty Islands, according to Ross, are (parenthesis indicates an allophone):
Ross (1988) describes the innovations separating Proto-Admiralty Islands from Proto-Oceanic.
Phonologically, they are:
Morphosyntactically, they are:
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