Reflex Proto-Austronesia to Ambelau in West Central Maluku Group: the Effort to Test the Hipotesis Collins (1981)

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

phonem reflex, Proto-Austronesia, shared innovation, top-down approach.

Abstract

Historically, the language of Ambelau is classified into the West Central Maluku Group with Buru, Sula and Taliabo. This study intends to explain the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) reflex into Ambelau language as a first step in testing Collins's (1981) hypothesis. To achieve this goal, the PAN etymon was used in the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary compiled by Blust and Trussel (2015) and the evidences of 200 basic vocabularies and 800 cultural vocabularies collected directly in the field. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using a top-down approach of intralingual pad method with the relation technique. Of 32 phonemes (consonants and vowels) reconstructed by Blust (2013), except * g and * aw, other PAN phonemes are found reflexively in Ambelau either through retention or innovation. PAN consonants with retention and innovation are * p, * t, * k, * b, * m, * n, * ɲ, * ŋ, * s, * h, * l, * r, and * y, whereas vowels * i, * u, and * a. The only innovated PAN phonemes (not retention) are * C, * q, * d, * z, * j, * c, * N, * S, * h, * R, * y, * ay, * iw, * uy, and * ǝ. PAN reflexes either through retention or innovation, each of which is regular and irregular. It should be noted that the PAN phoneme reflex into Ambelau language is split and merged.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Sumarlam Sumarlam
AU  - Dwi Purnanto
AU  - Burhanuddin Burhanuddin
AU  - Hujaefa H. Muhammad
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Reflex Proto-Austronesia to Ambelau in West Central Maluku Group: the Effort to Test the Hipotesis Collins (1981)
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 307
EP  - 315
SN  - 2352-5398
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