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...

Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar) are the geographic outliers. According to Robert Blust (1999), Austronesian is divided into several primary branches, all but...

Blust or blust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blust is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christina Blust, musician John Blust (born...

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"...

Southeast Asia. The Greater North Borneo hypothesis was first proposed by Robert Blust (2010) and further elaborated by Alexander Smith (2017a, 2017b). The...

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society. Retrieved May 21, 2014. Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *bunduk". Austronesian...

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...

daughter languages. Below are Proto-Austronesian phonemes reconstructed by Robert Blust, a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A total...

entire Austronesian language family. According to American linguist Robert Blust, the Formosan languages form nine of the ten principal branches of the...

internal subgrouping of the Malayo-Polynesian languages was made by Robert Blust who presented several papers advocating a division into two major branches...

Bintulu or Vaie is an Austronesian language of Borneo. Robert Blust leaves it as an isolate within the North Sarawakan languages. Ethnologue notes that...

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...

Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel. "Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *ba(ŋ)kuq". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved 7 July 2018. Robert Blust...

Austronesian and Ongan has not been supported by Austronesianists, and Robert Blust (2014) finds that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data:...

the ancient history of the language; linguists such as David Zorc and Robert Blust speculate that the Tagalogs and other Central Philippine ethno-linguistic...

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...

languages are a group of Formosan languages spoken in northern Taiwan. Robert Blust considers them to form a primary branch within the Austronesian language...

for the New Zealand flightless bird kiwi although some linguists like Robert Blust has proposed an alternate origin from Proto-Oceanic *kiwiwi, the Pacific...

ethnic groups of Mindanao, the Lumad peoples. In 2006, the linguist Robert Blust proposed that the Sama-Bajaw languages derived from the Barito lexical...

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...

Mariana Islands. Western Malayo-Polynesian was originally proposed by Robert Blust as a sister branch within Malayo-Polynesian coordinate to the CEMP branch...

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...

in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. This subgroup was first proposed by Robert Blust (1991) based on lexical and phonological evidence, and is accepted by...

result of contact/borrowing, a position also held by Hoogervorst (2012). Robert Blust (2014) argues that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data...

for the greater part as methodologically unsound by several reviewers. Robert Blust, a leading scholar in the field of Austronesian comparative linguistics...

Editrice Pontifica Universita Gregoriana. pp. 148–149. ISBN 9788876528484. Robert Blust; Stephen Trussel. "*du". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Retrieved...

15% of Indonesia's total population. According to American linguist Robert Blust, Sundanese is closely related to the Malayic languages, as well as to...

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...

May 29, 2022 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen. "pasiR sandbank, shoal in river or sea". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel...

Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, ed. K. A. Adelaar and A. Pawley, 375–397. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics...