* Realisations | Symbol | Realisation | Notes | |--------+-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | *p | [p] | ‘somewhat lenis, rather than aspirated’ | | *t | assumed [t] | ‘in a few … languages, there is a palatalised allophone of *t* before *i*’ | | *k | assumed [k] | | | *m | assumed [m] | | | *n | assumed [n] | | | *ŋ | assumed [ŋ] | | | *ʔ | assumed [ʔ] | | | *l | [l] | ‘we may surmise that it was a laterally released liquid, a light l, rather | | | | than a dark *l*, though there may have been centrally released allophones’ | | *r | assumed [r~ʁ~ɾ~ɹ] | ‘a non-lateral liquid of some kind’ | | *w | [w~β] | ‘was probably bilabial and possibly a voiced fricative rather than a semi-vowel’ | | *s | [s~hʲ] | ‘seems likely that PPN *s was a palatalised h or s which became | | | | [h] in Tongic and [hy] at some stage in Nuclear Polynesian’ | | *h | [h] | ‘We may suppose that PPN *h was in fact a glottal spirant contrasting with *s’ | | *f | [f~ɸ] | ‘was an unvoiced fricative possibly with both labio-dental and bilabial allophones’ | | *v | assumed [v] | | | *a | assumed [a] | | | *e | assumed [e] | | | *i | assumed [i] | | | *o | assumed [o] | | | *u | assumed [u] | | * Polynesian to Tongic *s → *h (merger with *h) *r → ∅ * Tongic to Niuean ‘loss of glottal stops’ possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Polynesian to Nuclear Polynesian *r → *l (merger with *l) *h → ∅ * Nuclear Polynesian to Samoic-outlier *w → *v * Samoic-outlier to East Futunan *f → w / # _ V *s (shared change) * Samoic-outlier to East Uvean *s → h (shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Ellicean ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Kapingamarangi *s → h (shared change) *f → h (shared change) ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Luangiua ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ *f → w / # _ V *s (shared change) *k → ʔ (shared change) *t → k (shared change) *n → *ŋ (merger with *ŋ; shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Nukuoro *f → h (shared change) ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Tuvaluan *s → h (shared change) ‘development … of a contrast between long and short consonants through the loss of short, unstressed vowels between identical consonants’ possibly: C₁ V C₁ → C₁ː (shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Takuu *f → w / # _ V *s (shared change) *l → {l, r} (condition not specified in source) *s → h (shared change) ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Pukapukan *s → θj (written as ‘θy’ in source) ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Samoan ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ *k → ʔ (shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Sikaiana *f → w / # _ V *s (shared change) *f → h (shared change) *ŋ → *n (merger with *n; shared change) ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Samoic-outlier to Pileni ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Pileni to Aua dialect of Pileni *f → h (shared change) * Pileni to Taumako dialect of Pileni *s → h (shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Rennellese *f → h (shared change) *l → *‘orthographic g’ * Rennellese to Rennel Island Rennellese *‘orthographic g’ → ᵑɡ (transcribed ‘[ngg]’ in original source) * Rennellese to Bellona Rennellese *‘orthographic g’ → ŋ (merger with *ŋ) * Samoan to Colloquial Samoan *t → k (shared change) *n → *ŋ (merger with *ŋ; shared change) * Samoic-outlier to Unnamed Outlier Subgroup *l → r * Unnamed Outlier Subgroup to Mae ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Unnamed Outlier Subgroup to Mele-Fila ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Unnamed Outlier Subgroup to Tikopian ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Unnamed Outlier Subgroup to West Futunan ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Unnamed Outlier Subgroup to West Uvean ‘loss of glottal stops’ (shared change) possibly: *ʔ → ∅ * Tikopian to Anutan dialect of Tikopian *f → p *s → ∅ * Nuclear Polynesian to Eastern Polynesian *ʔ → ∅ / # _ * Eastern Polynesian to Central-Eastern Polynesian *ʔ → ∅ {*f, *s} → *h / ‘medially and before round vowels’ *f → *w / # _ *a (*a) *h (merger with *w) * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Hawaiian *k → ʔ (shared change) *t → *k (except in Niʻihau dialect; shared change) *ŋ → *n (merger with *n; shared change) * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Mangarevan {*s, *f} → ʔ * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Rurutu {*s, *f, *k, *ŋ} → ʔ * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Tahitian *k → ʔ (shared change) * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Marquesan *r → ʔ * Marquesan to Southern dialect of Marquesan *k → ʔ (shared change) *ŋ → *n (merger with *n; shared change) * Marquesan to Northern dialect of Marquesan *ŋ → k (merger with *k; ‘except in the Taipi Valley on Nukuhiva’) * Central-Eastern Polynesian to Cook Islands Māori {*f, *h} → ʔ * Central-Eastern Polynesian to New Zealand Māori (no changes given in source) * New Zealand Māori to Bay of Plenty New Zealand Māori *ŋ → *n (merger with *n; shared change) * New Zealand Māori to South Island New Zealand Māori *ŋ → k (merger with *k) * New Zealand Māori to Taranaki-Wanganui River New Zealand Māori *h → ʔ *f → ‘glottalised w’ (possibly: wˀ) * Shared changes *f → w / # _ V *s In: - East Futunan - Takuu - Sikaiana - Luangiua *s → h In: - East Uvean - Kapingamarangi - Tuvaluan - Takuu - Taumako *f → h In: - Rennellese - Kapingamarangi - Nukuoro - Sikaiana - Aua *k → ʔ In: - Hawaiian - Tahitian - Southern dialect of Marquesan - Luangia - Samoan *t → k In: - Hawaiian (except in Niʻihau dialect) - Luangia - Colloquian Samoan *n → *ŋ (merger with *ŋ) In: - Luangia - Colloquian Samoan (‘seems to be related to the backing of *t to k in both languages’) *ŋ → *n (merger with *n) In: - Hawaiian - Sikaiana - Southern dialect of Marquesan - Bay of Plenty dialect Māori ‘development … of a contrast between long and short consonants through the loss of short, unstressed vowels between identical consonants’ possibly: C₁ V C₁ → C₁ː In: - Tuvaluan - ‘most, perhaps all of the Outliers’ ‘loss of glottal stops’ possibly: *ʔ → ∅ In: - Kapingamarangi - Nukuoro - Takuu - Luangiua - Sikaiana - Ellicean - West Futunan - Mele-Fila - Mae - West Uvean - Tikopian - Pileni - Pukapukan - Samoan ‘all the Samoic-Outlier languages except East Uvean, East Futunan and Rennellese’ ‘in Niuean … it must have been an independent change … the relatively few Oceanic languages which preserve this phoneme suggest that its independent loss was by no means uncommon’