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Part 1 presents some 980 reconstructions for Proto-Micronesian, Proto Central Micronesian, and Proto Western Micronesian. Part 2 (to appear in volume 42 [2]) gives reconstructions for two additional subgroups within Proto-Micronesian: Proto-Pohnpeic and Proto-Chuukic, and their immediate ancestor, Proto Pohnpeic-Chuukic. A handful of putative loans are also identified, and a single English 2nder list is provided for all of the reconstructions.

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Both labialization and palatalization have been reported for the Marshalleset consonant system; first one, then the other, then both. This paper attempts to examine whether there is in fact a three-way contrast among flatted, plain, and sharped consonants-to use the acoustic termsand if not, to determine which of the two distinctive features is operating. Marshallese consonants may be considered within a matrix of twelve vowels, comprising three series of four each: front (unrounded), back unrounded, and back rounded: