Proto-Aslian language
Proto-Aslian is the reconstructed proto-language of the Aslian languages of Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. It has been reconstructed by Timothy Phillips (2012). Reconstructed forms. The 289 reconstructed Proto-Aslian forms below are from Phillips (2012:259-262). Lexical innovations. Selected Aslian lexical innovations as identified by Paul Sidwell (2021): Phonological correspondences. Proto-Aslian appears to have some phonological rime correspondences with Nancowry, suggesting that there could be a Southern Austroasiatic branch or linkage that includes Aslian and Nicobaric. Gérard Diffloth (2008) presents the following comparisons (as quoted in Sidwell 2021).