Brief Introduction to Palauan numbers Part 1 

of the many austronesian languages of oceania and Asia, some numbers are similar looking. emen is interesting because of the nasal shifts, where most of austronesia has n-m than m-n

This seems very plausible!

@@languagestolearn8155 Some new pet theories on islands between Taiwan and Ryukyu. For the islands known as Senkaku to the Japanese and Tiauyu (釣魚) to the Taiwanese, I think the name came from the Austronesian word for fishhook *kawil, and the original Tsuân-tsiu Hoklo would have been kau-hir (鉤魚). That would make it match Sui dynasty records of kaw-hwæ (高華) in MC. I think the evidence for these islands is pretty strong. I have less confidence in the next two pet theories. For the Kume island (久米島), which was originally attested in Japanese and Sui records as Gubi, maybe it came from the Austronesian word for yam *qubi? For Ryukyu (流求 MC lɨu-ɡɨu) itself, maybe it came from *Raŋaw for orchid/vine or *laŋkaw for hihg/lofty. I'm basing this one on some possible cognates in Old Ryukyuan texts such as as Omoro Sōshi and Konkōkenshū, where *bulaN became Ora, which seems to indicate N > ∅ and l > r.

Thank you! I hope you're feeling better :)

Orung looks closer to Orang than Dua. And *sapuy to ngau?! This is as confusing as Lothringian compared to other romance langs.

​​@@seid3366 the case of how DuSa/Duha became Orung can also be seen in Oceanic languages like E rua or Rua. So it's possible that the same thing happened to the evolution of the Palauan language. Edit: even in Javanese too, two = loro

I’d love to learn Palauan

Ke kmal mesulang :) I'm getting more videos ready, unfortunately I don't have the time to make longer ones so will split them up :)

Actually I might have some questions related to grammar later on :)

@@languagestolearn8155 I would love to help. I am a fluent speaker but I am no linguist. But I’ll do the best that I can or point you in the right direction! Again super fascinating all your videos! Mesulang !

Thank you, Palauan is one of the most fascinating and beautiful-sounding languages in the whole family :)

The main criteria for it to be MP is the "politeness shift" in 2p singular possessive (i.e. "mo"/"mu") - "-m" in Palauan and PAN *t and *C merger to PMP *t ("d" in Palauan) Plus, since PMP was likely formed in the northern Philippines, there's logically not really any chance of it not being MP, as the early Palauans would have had to migrate from the Philippines or Indonesia and not directly from Taiwan. If I am not mistaken, it's estimated that they arrived in Palau one to two millennia after the first settlers arrived in the Philippines It's also not linguistically a Polynesian language (not geographically either, but rather Micronesian), but its own branch of Malayo-Polynesian. It's just that it is a very divergent language Hope this helps clarify things :)))

@@darkkestrel1 so it’s technically like Albanian in the Austronesian language family, it did diverge from a common austronesian ancestor but it forms an isolate branch with all it’s sound shifts.

I really like the video, thank you so much!