On the Proto-Austronesian "Diphthongs"

Abstract

Arguments are presented against the reconstruction of diphthongs in the phoneme inventory of Proto-Austronesian. The synchronic and diachronic evidence indicates that the elements previously characterized in this way are better analyzed as sequences of two independently reconstructed phonemes, a vowel followed by a consonant. With the elimination of this phonological class, a simpler PAN phoneme inventory than that previously posited is obtained

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