The Proto-Philippine language, also called Ancient Filipino, is a proto-language hypothesized to be the common linguistic ancestor of Philippine languages including Old Tagalog (and subsequently Modern Tagalog), the family of Visayan languages, and some languages in Mindanao.
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About the language
The words and roots of the Proto-Philippine language are not directly attested to in any written work, but are the result of linguistic reconstruction via the comparative method, which finds regular similarities between languages that cannot be explained by coincidence or word-borrowing, and extrapolates ancient forms from these similarities.
The Proto-Philippine language originated from Proto Malayo-Polynesian which is some words and phrases have similarities with Ancient Malay and other Austronesian languages.
Vowels
The diphthongs, which are diachronic sources of individual vowels, are:
Example Words
Below is a list of example words in Proto-Philippine language.