More Austro-Tai Comparisons and Observations on Vowel Correspondences

In this presentation, 13 new comparisons between Kra-Dai and Austronesian are presented. The comparisons include terms like ‘rattan’, ‘to plant or transplant crops’, ‘derris root used as fish poison’, to be sick; in pain', ‘leech’, and other basic vocabulary terms. In addition, observations on vowel correspondences between final-syllable vowels are discussed. High-vowels in the penultimate syllable caused a split in reflexes of *a. Additionally, there was an unconditioned split affecting schwa, which appears in Kra-Dai and Austronesian examples for which several examples are given.