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Reconstructed Proto-Franco-Sino-Indonesian:
Eleven Examples

In 1986, I published in Psammeticus Quarterly (Vol. XII, No. 4) an article entitled “Similarities in Form and Meaning in French, Chinese, and Indonesian,” which noted several similarities in form and meaning in French, Chinese, and Indonesian, and suggested that someone do further research to determine whether the languages were genetically related. Since no one took up my suggestion (indeed, most people just laughed at my hypothesis), I was forced to do that research myself, the result being that I now stand totally vindicated. My soon to be published book The Phonology of Proto-Franco-Sino-Indonesian will include regular sound laws proving that all three languages are descended from a unified ancestor, which archeological evidence tentatively suggests was spoken somewhere in South America.

As a preliminary to the publication of this text, this article presents a few example of reconstructed pto-Fco-Sno-Ids root forms, with tentative root meanings. The roots listed have reflexes in at least two and sometimes all three of the daughter tongues. The sound laws pertinent to the data are not presented but could be worked out easily by anyone with a minimal knowledge of the principles and methods of historical linguistics.

  pto-Fco-Sno-Ids French Chinese Indonesian
1. *kan ‘to watch’ kan ‘a film-watching fest’ kan ‘to watch’  
2. *dwo ‘more than one’ dø ‘two’ dwo ‘more’ dwa ‘two’
3. *insi ‘here’ isi ‘here’   sini ‘here’
4. *oraŋg ‘orange’ orãž ‘orange’   oraŋgutan ‘an orange ape’
5. *krist ‘Christ’ krist ‘Christ’   krista ‘Christian’
6. *kafe ‘coffee’ kafe ‘coffee’ kafey ‘coffee’  
7. *te ‘tea’ te ‘tea’  ča ‘tea’ te ‘tea’
8. *taŋt ‘sing’  šãt ‘I sing’  čaŋ ‘sing’  
9. *anding ‘be quiet’   anǰing ‘be quiet’ anǰing ‘dog’
10. *lah ‘tired’ la ‘weary’ ley ‘tired’ lelah ‘tired’
11. *maŋ ‘be active’   maŋ ‘be busy’ meŋ- ACTIVE MARKER

Tim Pulju Michigan State University

The Effect of Lax Rearing Practices on Speech Patterns—Douglas S. Files
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