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513:/*ʀ/ was probably either or . In the Eastern Admiralty languages, the reflex is usually , or sometimes before /o/, while in the Western Admiralty languages, it disappears entirely.
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Verb reduplication, which is used to form the continuative aspect, is lost. Daughter languages usually form the continuative aspect by adding the auxiliary verb meaning "to stay".
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Loss of all Proto-Oceanic word-final consonants, an innovation commonly found throughout
Oceanic. For example, POc
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Numeral classifiers are used in the sequence numeral + classifier (shared with Mussau), which forms a single word.
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Proto-Oceanic non-singular possessive pronominal suffixes are lost and replaced by disjunctive pronouns.
593:"One" is used as a common article, both as an indefinite and definite article (also shared with Mussau).
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The consonants of Proto-Admiralty
Islands, according to Ross, are (parenthesis indicates an allophone):
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in 1978 who showed that the languages form a subgroup within
Oceanic. It was mentioned in detail by
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Proto-Oceanic and the
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with common nouns, resulting in changes to the initial consonant.
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is a descendant or a sister language to Proto-Admiralty
Islands.
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628:"first person inclusive plural disjunctive" irregularly becomes
602:"third person singular possessive suffix" irregularly becomes
507:/*c/, like Proto-Oceanic, only occurs in word-medial position.
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Reconstructed ancestor of the
Admiralty Islands languages
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Proto-Admiralty
Islands separated into two languages:
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510:is an allophone of /*p/ in word-medial position.
536:was lost before high vowels. For example, POc
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668:. Canberra: Australian National University.
516:The voiced stops were probably prenasalized.
704:Blust, Robert. The Proto-Oceanic Palatals.
162:in 1998, who theorized a link with the two
27:Proto-Admiralty, Proto-Admiralties, PAdm
606:(Proto-Admiralty Islands did not merge
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642:Coalescence of the article
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89:Proto-Eastern Admiralty
66:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
22:Proto-Admiralty Islands
164:St. Matthias languages
149:Austronesian languages
32:Reconstruction of
731:The Oceanic languages
567:"to fly" became PAdm
706:JPS Monograph No. 43
548:"evening" > PAdm
540:"house" became PAdm
143:. It belongs to the
618:"turtle" > PAdm
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123:and abbreviated as
578:"pig" became PAdm
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521:Innovations
461:Approximant
217:Consonants
178:Descendants
777:Categories
692:References
544:, but POc
225:Labiovelar
207:Consonants
104:(possibly)
757:cite book
550:*(pa)Rafi
411:Fricative
313:voiceless
202:Phonology
127:) is the
55:ancestors
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729:(2002).
684:20100109
660:(1988).
235:Alveolar
230:Bilabial
620:*poñ(u)
569:*Rof(o)
559:became
240:Palatal
145:Oceanic
135:of the
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565:*Ropok
542:*um(a)
538:*Rumaq
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250:Uvular
196:Yapese
168:Mussau
102:Yapese
42:Region
626:*kita
616:*poñu
546:*Rapi
357:Nasal
245:Velar
172:Tenis
763:link
745:OCLC
735:ISBN
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670:ISBN
634:*ita
610:and
604:*-na
600:*-ña
580:*bou
257:Stop
186:and
170:and
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630:*ta
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