User:Ceige/SEA Inspired 4

Sources

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Austro-Asiatic_Swadesh_lists
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Austronesian_Swadesh_list
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Tai-Kadai_Swadesh_lists
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Hmong–Mien_language
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:White_Hmong_Swadesh_list
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Tai_peoples
• http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=new100&encoding=utf-eng

Swadesh Vocab

Core Pronouns

• 1s = kɯ, ŋa (PA -ku, PTK kɯ, PHM kɛŋB, PMK ʔang, PM(unda) iN)
• 2s = mɯ (PA -mu (2p?), PT mɯŋ, maɰA, PHM muei, PMK mi(i)ʔ/h, PM om)
• 3s:

• n- (PA ni(-a), Viet nó, Santali (Demonst.) uni, Hlai na, W.Hmong nws)
• a- (PA ia, Santali (anaphoric) ac'-; JP a-)
• k- (Thai kháo, Ong Be kǝ2, Khmer koat, kei...; JP ka-)
• "person" (cf. Lao Lāo (?))

Extra Pronouns

• this
• that
• here
• there
• who
• what
• where
• when
• how

Quantifier of sorts

• not
• all
• many
• some
• few
• other

Numbers

• one
• two
• three
• four
• five

Body

• eye = (PA maCa, PTK pta: (Thai taa, Buyang ma0 ta54), PAA(/MK) mat? (Viet mắt), PST s-mjak x s-mik, PHM tsei-maB?