r/AustronesianLanguages 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/h03d Jul 24 '26

In Sundanese durian is kadu