LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Indonesian Language, Wala People, Proto-Language

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Alan Clinton Bale

Document Summary

Back to the real world: we can say exactly the same kind of thing about bahasa indonesia, tolai, paamese, Fijian, and maori: these are all related languages derived from a proto-language that was spoken in the distant past at a time when writing was not yet known. Austronesian: bahasa indonesia, tolai, paamese, fijian, and maori all belong to the austronesian language family, the austronesian languages are widely dispersed throughout maritime southeast asia, Madagascar, and the islands of the pacific ocean, with a few members in continental. It is the fifth largest language family by number of speakers. Romania (and in the areas in between: different languages in europe were created (spanish, french, italian, and. Romanian: not as much split as in austronesian language family, one big dialect continuum, less clear differentiation between languages. Wherever italian, spanish, and portuguese have /k/, french has / / Wherever italian, spanish, and portuguese have /a/, french has / /