• DOI:10.1353/ol.2007.0015
Corpus ID: 143141296

A Long Lost Sister of Proto-Austronesian?: Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands

@article{Blevins2007ALL,
  title={A Long Lost Sister of Proto-Austronesian?: Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands},
  author={J. Blevins},
  journal={Oceanic Linguistics},
  year={2007},
  volume={46},
  pages={154 - 198}
}

J. Blevins

Published 2007

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Oceanic Linguistics

This paper applies the comparative method to two related languages of the southen Andaman Islands, Jarawa and Onge, leading to the reconstruction of a proto-language termed "Proto-Ongan" (PON). The same method is used to argue that Proto-Ongan may be related to Proto-Austronesian (PAN). Lexical and grammatical evidence suggests that Proto-Ongan and Proto-Austronesian are sisters, daughters of a Proto-Austronesian-Ongan (PAO). The implications of this discovery are wide-ranging, from potential… CONTINUE READING

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