Langenesis

Austronesian family

Proto-Central Pacific

c. 1,000 BCE – 800 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Central Pacific (c. 1,000 BCE – 800 BCE) is a reconstructed Austronesian language. It has 9 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Proto-Oceanic → Proto-Central Pacific.

See Proto-Central Pacific on the interactive map

Ancestor of Fijian, Rotuman and the Polynesian languages, spoken in the Fiji–Tonga–Samoa region after Lapita settlement.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  3. Proto-Oceanicc. 1,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Pacificc. 1,000 BCE – 800 BCE

Descendants 2

Sources