Austroasiatic languages
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The maritime origins of the Munda
Razib Khan finds the Munda Maritime Hypothesis highly likely: Munda languages arose on India’s east coast after Austroasiatic speakers crossed the Bay of Bengal from Southeast Asia 3,500 to 4,000…
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The Munda as upland rice cultivators
Reading a history of Vietnam, the author, a geneticist, argues the Munda are not South Asia’s aboriginals but descend from male-mediated Austro-Asiatic migration, probably between 2000 and 1000 BCE, and…
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Why I don’t accept the para-Munda hypothesis
The author rejects Michael Witzel’s idea that a Munda-like language dominated the Indus and Gangetic plains, arguing from language, Y-chromosome and ancient DNA that the Munda arrived from Southeast Asia…
