Proto-Austronesian Hebrew

Proto-Austronesian Hebrew Dabaru Oiberim
Spoken in:	Palau?
Conworld:	almost the real world
Total speakers:	none presently
Genealogical classification:	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Northwest Semitic Proto-Austronesian Hebrew
Basic word order:	VSO/SVO
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Austronesian
Writing system:
Created by:
Robert Marshall Murphy	2012 A.D.

After their transportation from the Ancient Near East (ANE), the Paleo-Hebrew (PH) people maintained their language and culture as best they could while surrounded by the vast Lapitan Empire in Oceania. The one advantage they had in this otherwise impossible quest was the invention of writing, something that wouldn't come to the area for thousands of years. The homogeny of the original, core group who left the Levant cannot be ascertained. Apparently, speakers of Post-Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Late Egyptian (Coptic) had some influence, but seemingly not Aramaic. The primary languages seems to have been Northwestern Semitic - Phoenician and Hebrew. Over millennia, the Austronesian sounds (and grammar!) of Proto-Austronesian (PAn) and the Formosan languages radically reshaped this unexpected stranger from halfway around the world.

Proto-Austronesian Hebrew (PAH) began with a core group of less than a thousand Semitic individuals around the year 1000 B.C. who were rapidly transported to what is modern-day Taiwan, presumedly as part of a series of slave trades. Hiroyuki Fujisaka (藤坂 弘幸) discovered an unknown number of inscriptions or tablets on the island of Palau in the 1920’s and 30’s, which seem to have been written in both the Phoenician adjad and Ugaritic cuneiform letters. He transcribed all of them into the Japanese katakana syllabary and took only those notes back Taihoku (Taipei). Fujisaka was killed in the war, and his notes were lost until 1996. All original artifacts are lost, though extensive digs are underway, looking for more. In 2007, Graham McCauley connected PAH with what came to be known as Proto-Polynesian Hebrew (PPH) and proposed the name "Proto-Oceanic Hebrew" to cover them both. PPH (somewhat arbitrarily) extends from 1 A.D. to around 1000 A.D., when these Semitic people(s) who had been transported as slaves without a writing system to New Zealand where finally taken off-world. On Chatham Isalnd, they had invented a new alphabet (perhaps under the influence of the Easter Island civilization?), and wrote the famous Motutapu Ostraca, some time around the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era.

1. Writing System
2. Phonology
   1. History
   2. Consonants
   3. Vowels
   4. Phonotactics
3. Grammar
   1. Tri-letter Roots
   2. Case and State
   3. Gender
   4. Number
   5. Definiteness
   6. Tense-Aspect-Mood
   7. Voice
4. Morphology
   1. Nouns
   2. Adjectives
   3. Numbers
   4. Pronouns
   5. Prepositions
5. Verbs

• Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Swadesh