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Austronesian–Ongan is a proposed connection between the Ongan and Austronesian language families, published in Blevins (2007). Ongan is a small family of two attested languages in the Andaman Islands, while Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, with a thousand languages spread across the Pacific. ==Sound correspondences== Blevins (2007) proposes the following sound correspondences: There is neutralization and sometimes loss of final nasals in Proto-Ongan, with final * *n merged into Proto-Ongan *ŋ, and final * *m and * *ny partially merged into *ŋ. (The latter merger, and loss, may post-date Proto-Ongan.) Final (oral) stops are lost in multisyllabic words (unstressed syllables?) in Proto-Ongan. Initial * *b drops from Proto-Ongan before * *u and perhaps before * *i. * * * *kw become *kw in Proto-Ongan, and *q/k or *w in Proto-AN. Proto-Ongan and Proto-AN share a typologically odd restriction against root-initial *m-. Vowel-initial words in Proto-Ongan correspond to *q in Proto-AN; because the Austronesian forms often include doublets, Blevins believes this is due to epenthesis in Proto-AN. Final * *ay has become *e in Proto-Ongan. *e also derives from * *a before palatals, word-finally, and when unstressed. Proto-Ongan *o typically derives from * *u in a checked syllable, or from assimilation as in * *wa. Proto-Ongan *ə is thought to have been an allophone of *e, found before coda nasals except after palatals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austronesian–Ongan languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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