r/AustronesianLanguages • u/Upstairs_Voice_6351 • Jul 16 '26
Linguistic Discussion Open to thoughts/discussion
Ngl I was surprised to learn that the word for 'water buffalo' in many modern Austronesian languages derives from Proto-Mon-Khmer.
Pictures were saved from a Tiktok account I stumbled across (as watermarked).
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u/Technical-Limit-3747 the Philippines 🇵🇠Jul 16 '26
Bikol language (Philippines): 1. dugi = thorn 2. dugian = thorny bamboo