Langenesis

Austronesian family

Proto-Eastern Polynesian

c. 700 CE – 1100 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Eastern Polynesian (c. 700 CE – 1100 CE) is a reconstructed Austronesian language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Proto-Oceanic → Proto-Central Pacific → Proto-Polynesian → Proto-Eastern Polynesian.

See Proto-Eastern Polynesian on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Eastern Polynesian languages, spoken in central East Polynesia (Society / Cook Islands region) before the rapid settlement of Hawaiʻi, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa. Recent radiocarbon chronologies place that dispersal ~1000–1200 CE.

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
  5. Proto-Polynesianc. 800 BCE – 100 CE
  6. Proto-Eastern Polynesianc. 700 CE – 1100 CE

Descendants 4

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Polynesian.

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