Comparative Reconstruction of Proto-Biakic Phonology
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Abstract
Biakic is a small subgroup of New Guinea’s Austronesian (AN) languages
belonging to the South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) family. The
Biakic group contains four languages: Biak, Roon, Roswar, and Dusner. Following
the comparative method and utilizing six wordlists gathered from field research ‒
along with prior historical work on Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP), Proto-
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (PCEMP), and SHWNG ‒ this thesis
reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Biakic, provides a list of 133 proto-forms,
and explores theories for subgrouping the Biakic languages. Though the
observations presented are preliminary and more research is needed to verify the
claims in this paper, this study begins to shed some light on the historical situation
of an under-researched linguistic region.