Langenesis

Austronesian family

Proto-Polynesian

c. 800 BCE – 100 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Polynesian (c. 800 BCE – 100 CE) is a reconstructed Austronesian language. It has 7 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Proto-Oceanic → Proto-Central Pacific → Proto-Polynesian.

See Proto-Polynesian on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the Polynesian languages, spoken in Tonga and Samoa. Splits into Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian.

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

Descendants 3

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Central Pacific.

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