Imagine the wealth of knowledge we could uncover if it was possible to travel back in time and re-construct ancient languages. While that’s impossible right now, scientists at UC Berkley and the ...

In an attempt to preserve endangered languages, UC Berkeley scientists create a computer program that reconstructs ancient tongues using their modern descendants. Leslie Katz led a team that explored ...

Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of ...

Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to ...

Vol. 13, No. 1/2, Papers of the First International Conference on Comparative Austronesian Linguistics, 1974: Proto-Austronesian and Western Austronesian (Summer - Winter, 1974), pp. 257-277 (21 pages ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract On solid evidence, Proto-Austronesian etyma have been reconstructed with final consonants. Just as clearly, word forms in the descendent ...