Editing Bisayan languages (section)

==Reconstruction==<!---[[Proto-Bisayan]] redirects here--->
{{Infobox proto-language
| name             = Proto-Bisayan
| familycolor      = Austronesian
| ancestor         = [[Proto-Austronesian language|Proto-Austronesian]]
| ancestor2        = [[Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language|Proto-Malayo-Polynesian]]
| ancestor3        = [[Proto-Philippine language|Proto-Philippine]]
| target          = Bisayan languages
}}
[[David Zorc]]'s reconstruction of Proto-Bisayan had 15 [[consonant]]s and 4 [[vowel]]s (Zorc 1977:201).<ref name="Zorc" /> Vowel length, primary stress (penultimate and ultimate), and secondary stress (pre-penultimate) are also reconstructed by Zorc.

{|class="wikitable"
|+caption | '''Proto-Bisayan Consonants'''
|-
!colspan=2|
![[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
!rowspan=2 | [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
! style="text-align: left; font-size: 80%;" | Voiceless
|align="center"|{{IPA|p}}
|align="center"|{{IPA|t}}
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|k}}
|align="center"|{{IPA|ʔ}}
|-
! style="text-align: left; font-size: 80%;" |Voiced
|align="center"|{{IPA|b}}
|align="center"|{{IPA|d}}
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|ɡ}}
|
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
|align="center"|{{IPA|m}}
|align="center"|{{IPA|n}}
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|ŋ}}
|
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|s}}
|
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|h}}
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|l}}
|
|
|
|-
! colspan=2 | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
|align="center"|{{IPA|w}}
|
|align="center"|{{IPA|j}}
|
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|}

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto:" align="center" style="text-align:center" width="30%"
|+caption | '''Proto-Bisayan Vowels'''
! colspan="2" | Height
! colspan="2" | [[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" | [[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" | [[Back vowel|Back]]
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |'''[[Close vowel|Close]]'''
| colspan="2" |'''i''' {{IPA|/i/}}
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |'''u''' {{IPA|/u/}}
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |'''[[Mid vowel|Mid]]'''
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |'''ə''' {{IPA|/ə/}}
| colspan="2" |
|- align="center"
| colspan="2" |'''[[Open vowel|Open]]'''
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |'''a''' {{IPA|/a/}}
| colspan="2" |
|}