{"id": "card_floor_austronesian", "kind": "note", "title": "Austronesian — a language family: branches descending from Proto-Austronesian", "body": "The Austronesian family as a floor on the one map: its daughter BRANCHES are the trees, descending from Proto-Austronesian — a RECONSTRUCTION (a postulate: cited to the comparative method, inferred from the regular correspondences among the attested languages, never kept as a fact and never sealed). The branches and their languages are attested; Proto-Austronesian is reconstructed. The family is held SEPARATE from the others (no contested macro-family). At Babel the one language became many (Genesis 11); this is one of those tongues. Found, never generated (tools/seed_language_families.py).", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — the Austronesian floor (the comparative method)", "url": "", "domain": "linguistics", "authority_tier": "engine_derived"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "floor", "bands": ["floor", "austronesian", "language family", "linguistics", "etymology", "one map", "babel"], "subject": "Austronesian", "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "relationship": "part_of", "evidence": "the Austronesian floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery"}, {"to_card_id": "card_austronesian_branch_formosan", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Austronesian family: Formosan"}, {"to_card_id": "card_austronesian_branch_malayo_polynesian", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Austronesian family: Malayo-Polynesian"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": 0.0, "updated_at": 0.0, "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "generated": false, "call": "codex.floor", "facets": {"subject": ["austronesian", "babel", "etymology", "language family", "linguistics", "one map"]}, "presentation": {"glyph": "•", "kind_label": "floor", "by": "Narrow Highway — the Austronesian floor (the comparative method)", "authority": "engine_derived", "posted": "", "standing": ""}, "neighbors": [{"id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "title": "The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God", "relationship": "part of", "why": "the Austronesian floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery", "href": "/card/card_k_floor_of_discovery", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_austronesian_branch_formosan", "title": "Formosan — a branch of Austronesian", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Austronesian family: Formosan", "href": "/card/card_austronesian_branch_formosan", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_austronesian_branch_malayo_polynesian", "title": "Malayo-Polynesian — a branch of Austronesian", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Austronesian family: Malayo-Polynesian", "href": "/card/card_austronesian_branch_malayo_polynesian", "resolved": true}], "house": {"door": "FIND", "kind": "card", "trail": "connections", "seal": "/card/card_floor_austronesian", "next_step": {"do": "follow a connection: what this card rests on, and what rests on it", "door": "FIND", "tool": "card_connections", "params": {"id": "card_floor_austronesian"}}, "ends": "a verdict or a card · the trail · a seal · one next step"}}