Robert A. Blust (/blʌst/; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including...
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Austronesian languages (section Blust (1999))
Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers. According to Robert Blust (1999), Austronesian is divided into several primary branches, all but...
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Blust or blust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blust is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christina Blust, musician John Blust (born...
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included in this. Peter Bellwood includes Taiwan in his definition, as does Robert Blust, whilst there are examples that do not. The 16th-century term "East Indies"...
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Greater North Borneo languages (section Blust (2010))
Southeast Asia. The Greater North Borneo hypothesis was first proposed by Robert Blust (2010) and further elaborated by Alexander Smith (2017a, 2017b). The...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society. Retrieved May 21, 2014. Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bunduk". Austronesian...
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Philippine languages (section Blust (1991; 2005))
or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines...
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daughter languages. Below are Proto-Austronesian phonemes reconstructed by Robert Blust, a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A total...
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Formosan languages (section Blust)
entire Austronesian language family. According to American linguist Robert Blust, the Formosan languages form nine of the ten principal branches of the...
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internal subgrouping of the Malayo-Polynesian languages was made by Robert Blust who presented several papers advocating a division into two major branches...
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Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of Borneo. Robert Blust leaves it as an isolate within the North Sarawakan languages. Ethnologue notes that...
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John Marshall Blust (born June 4, 1954) is a former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's sixty-second House...
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Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *ba(ŋ)kuq". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved 7 July 2018. Robert Blust...
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Austronesian and Ongan has not been supported by Austronesianists, and Robert Blust (2014) finds that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data:...
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the ancient history of the language; linguists such as David Zorc and Robert Blust speculate that the Tagalogs and other Central Philippine ethno-linguistic...
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animals (historical or otherwise) have ever been found in this region." Robert Blust in The Origin of Dragons (2000) argues that, like many other creations...
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languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. Robert Blust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language...
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for the New Zealand flightless bird kiwi although some linguists like Robert Blust has proposed an alternate origin from Proto-Oceanic *kiwiwi, the Pacific...
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ethnic groups of Mindanao, the Lumad peoples. In 2006, the linguist Robert Blust proposed that the Sama-Bajaw languages derived from the Barito lexical...
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Borneo), and all of the islands of Indonesia to the west of New Guinea." Robert Blust: "The major western island groups include the great Indonesian, or Malay...
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Mariana Islands. Western Malayo-Polynesian was originally proposed by Robert Blust as a sister branch within Malayo-Polynesian coordinate to the CEMP branch...
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this proposal has not been well received by other linguists, such as Robert Blust, who concludes that the hypothesis is not supported by the comparative...
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in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by...
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result of contact/borrowing, a position also held by Hoogervorst (2012). Robert Blust (2014) argues that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data...
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for the greater part as methodologically unsound by several reviewers. Robert Blust, a leading scholar in the field of Austronesian comparative linguistics...
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Editrice Pontifica Universita Gregoriana. pp. 148–149. ISBN 9788876528484. Robert Blust; Stephen Trussel. "*du". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved...
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15% of Indonesia's total population. According to American linguist Robert Blust, Sundanese is closely related to the Malayic languages, as well as to...
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fricatives, with new evidence from Pumi, Lingua 121.9:1518–1538 [1] Robert Blust, 2006, "The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis...
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May 29, 2022 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen. "pasiR sandbank, shoal in river or sea". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel...
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Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, ed. K. A. Adelaar and A. Pawley, 375–397. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics...
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