--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> You mean "Austric", not "Austronesian". The Austric hypothesis
proposes that several language families of SE Asia are genetically
related. They include Austronesian, Tai-Kadai, Hmong-Mien, and
Austroasiatic (= Munda + Nicobarese + Mon-Khmer). The Mundas are not
Austronesians, though there may be a distant relationship between the
two families.
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> Piotr
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Actually, I already caught myself and changed my post from
Austronesian to Austroasiatic. As I understand it, Munda is (or was)
counted in the Austroasiatic family.
Now that I think about it a
little more, though, tea is normally grown on hillsides and uplands.
This may have been in Tai-Kadai regions. The Austroasiatics seem to
have been more lowland peoples, though there were apparently some Mon
states in northern Thailand before the Thais arrived.
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