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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language

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In Austronesian languages: Phonology
…this system to that of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (the hypothetical ancestor of all non-Formosan Austronesian languages) are the merger of *C and *t as PMP *t, the merger of *N and *n as PMP *n, and the shift of *S to PMP *h (and of *eS to *ah). A number of other…
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