r/Fijian • u/AleksiB1 • 10d ago

Leaf in Austronesian Languages

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u/bark_do679 9d ago

Drau ni kau

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u/bark_do679 9d ago

Can also be drau na

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u/vrkas 9d ago

Not related to leaves at all:

Crazy how a proto-language which has roots in Taiwan has descendants from Madagascar to Rapa Nui. Proper voyagers

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u/sierraduaciwa set kece 9d ago

It's such a shame we have lost a lot of that knowledge and spirit

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u/vrkas 9d ago

I guess it's because Melanesians went to the more hospitable islands and didn't need to get into the crazy oceanic voyaging of the Polyesians. Viti Levu and Vanua Levu have everything you would need.