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Currently reviewing a journal article by Lawrence A Reid regarding the origins of the Filipino negrito languages - involves Malayo-Polynesian languages in the Philippines and the negritos' possible interaction with the MP groups. I have 0 knowledge on linguistics as a whole.
Need to consult people well-versed in the area whether my understanding of the article is actually correct. I'm looking for someone who can also check whether my opinions about the article are well-informed or are they based off my misunderstanding on the article.
Consultation is non-voice, probably through reddit messages/e-mail - may take up 1-2 hrs of your time in total
I've noticed that many of the Formosan languages (with exception of some East-Formosan languages) and many reconstructions of proto-Austronesian tend to have the phonemes /x/, /q/, and /Ι¬/, but in other Austronesian languages they're seldom seen outside of Taiwan. Does anybody know why this would be?
Filipino speaker & amateur lingust here. I recently watched a video comparing Filipino with Behasa Indonesia, and I noticed that Indonesians do not have words where they put stress on the final vowel, unlike in Filipino. Both languages do contain words which are stressed on the penultimate vowel (and seems to be the norm among the many spoken languages in the Malayo-Polynesian family). Are there similar languages outside the Philippines where this happens? And if this is uncommon among austronesian-speaking groups, then what does this say about its evolution?
The video: https://youtu.be/V_JIreztWNY
Cognates that have (almost) same spelling but different stress:
(Indo/Fil - meaning) (diacritics are put on for clarity; normally it is understood by context)
Aku/akΓ³ - I Anak/anΓ‘k - child Kami/kamΓ - we (inclusive) Bato/batΓ³ - rock/stone Dua/dalawΓ‘ - two Lima/limΓ‘ - five Minum/inΓ³m - (to) drink
Also, in Filipino, you could sometimes deduce the function of the word depending on the stress, though it is not uniform:
Some that make sense: HalΓ΄ [(to be) mixed] & HalΓ² [(to) mix] GalΓt (angry) & Galit (anger) KumΓ³t [(to be) covered (in bedshets)] & Kumot [bedsheets]
Some that don't: Baka (cow) & BakΓ’ (probably, because) Balot [(to) cover] & BalΓ³t (that duck egg thing that every youtuber bring up when talking about filipino food) TubΓ³ (sugarcane) & TubΓ² (growth) & Tubo (pipe)
Interestingly, Indonesia uses the Greek version in its own name, instead of the more "native" nusa. Both of these words mean "island," but from a cursory Wiktionary search they seem completely unrelated etymologically even though they are phonetically and semantically similar.
Is there any literature that proposes a relationship between these two words?
EDIT: Sorry if this wasn't clear, but I'm not asking if they're related or not. I'm asking if there's any academic literature that proposes or even mentions a relationship between the etymologies. I'm wondering if anyone has come up with anything because the Wiktionary for the Greek says it might be a "Pre-Greek borrowing."
Title says it all. I am just wondering if one language has retained the most of the original features of Proto-Austronesian or more particularly Proto-Malayo-Austronesian.
I noticed that Malay, Tagalog, Visayan, Javanese, as far as i know, only have greetings based on the time of day (good day, good morning, etc), and lacks a native general all-purpose greeting. These languages mostly all use the English 'hi' or 'hello,' and Filipino languages also adopted 'ΒΏcΓ³mo estΓ‘?' as a general greeting.
On the other hand Polynesians, a subgroup of the Austronesian family, seem to have developed 'hi' equivalents, at least as an all-purpose greeting. Hawaiians have 'aloha,' Maori have 'kia ora', (these greetings, though, have a deeper meaning but nonetheless functions as a general 'hello.')
EDIT: What interests me is that indigenous Austronesian SEA (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) in particular lack such a concept while most neighboring languages in East Asia, Mainland SEA, and Polynesia all have one. Chinese have 'nihao', Japanese has 'konnichiwa', Thai has 'sawasdee'.
EDIT2: Sanskrit svastiΒ (ΰ€Έΰ₯ΰ€΅ΰ€Έΰ₯ΰ€€ΰ€Ώ meaning 'well-being'), could have been a lingua-franca greeting for most of Indianized SEA. Origin of Thai's 'sawasdee' and was used as an formal openning for inscriptions as was in the pre-colonial Philippines Laguna Copperplate inscription. There still doesnt seem to be a native Austronesian equivalent though.
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Hello, I am a high school student in US. I always wanted to learn a new language but I just canβt decide which one I should learn because I like all of them.
The languages are: Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Uzbek. Do you guys have any suggestions? To me, Uzbek is the easiest to learn and pronounce, but I have more interest in learning Kyrgyz and Kazakh.
It is interesting to me that areas on the west coast of Ireland are the last remaining Gaeltacht, while most parts of rural central Ireland speak exclusively English. I would have thought that the Irish language would survive in all the most rural areas, rather than just the westernmost rural areas, but alas it is not so. How did this happen?
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Like depending on the sound when it's spoken or in songs etc.
(It doesn't have to be a Turkic language from Central Asia)
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Did the polynesians have a written language? Are there texts, or etchings proving this? Or were they a completely oral tradition based culture?
