Proto-Malayo-Polynesian

Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian

Proto-Austronesian is the ancestor of all languages in the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. No records of it survive, so Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is reconstructed from the languages it has split into.

Here are the numbers from zero to ten translated in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian:

Number Reconstruction IPA
0 //
1 asa₁ /asa₁/
2 duha /duha/
3 telu /telu/
4 epat /epat/
5 ima₁ /ima₁/
6 enem /enem/
7 pitu₁ /pitu₁/
8 walu /walu/
9 siwa /siwa/
10 sa-ŋa-puluq, sa-puluq /sa puluq/, /sa ŋa puluq/
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