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This is a diachronic constructed language.  Imagine 800 B.C. Hebrew met 800 B.C. Tagalog and hung out for 800 years before being found 2000 years later by a Japanese linguist.
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| English = Proto-Austronesian Hebrew
| English = Proto-Austronesian Hebrew
| native = Dabaru Oiberim
| native = Dabaru Oiberim
| country = Palau?
| country = the Philippines and Palau?
| universe = almost the real world
| universe = almost the real world
| speakers = none presently
| speakers = none presently
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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.
After their capture in and 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 their knowledge of writing, something that would not come to the area for nearly a thousand years. The heterogenous make-up of the original core group who left the Levant cannot be ascertained with certainty, but scholars speculate that speakers of Phoenician, Moabite, (Ugaritic?,) Akkadian, and Late Egyptian (Coptic) had some influence, but the language is definitely Israelian Hebrew<ref>A term preferred by Gary A. Rendsburg of Cornell</ref>, that is, Northern, "Aramaic influenced" Hebrew.  They seem to have left the Levant in the eighth century B.C. and travelled mostly over land until they reached the Kingdom of the Philippines and Palau. Over the centuries, the Austronesian sounds (and grammar!) of Proto-Austronesian (PAn) and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) radically reshaped this unexpected stranger from the other side of 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.
In the 1920's and 30's, Hiroyuki Fujisaka (藤坂 弘幸) discovered an unknown number of inscriptions, tablets and ostraca on the island of Palau, which were written in a both cuneiform and a Brāhmī script even older than the edicts of Ashoka. He transcribed all of them into a unique adaptation of the Japanese ''katakana'' syllabary.  He returned to his professorship in Taihoku (Taipei) and sent his notes back to Japan. 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 overarching term "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 taken off-world.  On Chatham Island, 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.




# [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Writing System|Writing System]]
# [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Writing System|Writing System]]
# [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology|Phonology]]
# [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology|Phonology]]
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#History|History]]
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#History|History]] (a.k.a. Grand Master Plan)
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#Consonants|Consonants]]
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#Consonants|Consonants]]
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#Vowels|Vowels]]
## [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology#Vowels|Vowels]]
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* [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Swadesh]]
* [[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Swadesh]]


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Revision as of 20:36, 26 December 2012

This is a diachronic constructed language. Imagine 800 B.C. Hebrew met 800 B.C. Tagalog and hung out for 800 years before being found 2000 years later by a Japanese linguist.

Proto-Austronesian Hebrew
Dabaru Oiberim
Spoken in: the Philippines and 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 capture in and 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 their knowledge of writing, something that would not come to the area for nearly a thousand years. The heterogenous make-up of the original core group who left the Levant cannot be ascertained with certainty, but scholars speculate that speakers of Phoenician, Moabite, (Ugaritic?,) Akkadian, and Late Egyptian (Coptic) had some influence, but the language is definitely Israelian Hebrew[1], that is, Northern, "Aramaic influenced" Hebrew. They seem to have left the Levant in the eighth century B.C. and travelled mostly over land until they reached the Kingdom of the Philippines and Palau. Over the centuries, the Austronesian sounds (and grammar!) of Proto-Austronesian (PAn) and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) radically reshaped this unexpected stranger from the other side of the world.

In the 1920's and 30's, Hiroyuki Fujisaka (藤坂 弘幸) discovered an unknown number of inscriptions, tablets and ostraca on the island of Palau, which were written in a both cuneiform and a Brāhmī script even older than the edicts of Ashoka. He transcribed all of them into a unique adaptation of the Japanese katakana syllabary. He returned to his professorship in Taihoku (Taipei) and sent his notes back to Japan. 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 overarching term "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 taken off-world. On Chatham Island, 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 (a.k.a. Grand Master Plan)
    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
  1. ↑ A term preferred by Gary A. Rendsburg of Cornell
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