Proto-Austronesian Hebrew/Phonology

Like all the languages fanning out from Taiwan 3000 years ago, an intense flattening of the phonemic landscape slowly decimated PAH. By the time of they were living on Palau, a wide array of simplifications had taken place. Almost all the changes parallel the development of Proto-Austronesian (PAn) > Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP).

History

Paleo-Hebrew

Before being carried off, the Ancient Hebrews of Canaan had a robust and diverse phonology, with nine places and ten manners of articulation. Tiberian Hebrew orthography utilizes 22 consonants with three diacritical marks (the dageš, sin-dot, and šin-dot) to notate 32 sounds, though it is a very recent rediscovery that two letters were homographs.. It is highly unlikely that the begadkafat letters had two sounds until well after 800 B.C.

PH Levantine Consonants
		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-A.	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Stop	unvoiced	p		t			k		?
	voiced	b
	ejective			t'
Fricative	unvoiced	f	θ	s	ʃ	x	χ	ħ	h
	voiced	v	ð	z		ɤ	ʁ	ʕ
	ejective			s'
	lateral				ɬ
Approximants		w		l		j
Trill			r

Vowels

Vowels
	Front	Near-front	Central	Back
High	i			u
High-mid		e		o
Near-low			a