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I am not a language expert, but should this page have a reference to Mundic as an alternative language name for Austric?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_O_%28Y-DNA%29. You can postulate genetic relationship of South-Asian languages with a high degree of certainty. They are all related, that's sure, but considering the age of Y-haplogroup O (ca. 30 000 years), proving this relationship is not easy at all. 82.100.61.114 00:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Haplogroup O, as well as all the language families believed to be associated with the carriers of Haplogroup O Y-chromosomes (including Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Tai-Kadai, Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien, and possibly also Altaic, Korean, and Japanese) originated in China. This can be proven by the fact that even the Munda languages of Central India contain obvious loanwords from the Chinese language, which is a relatively recently evolved branch of the Sino-Tibetan stock.
- As for the physical peculiarities of the Munda peoples, this has been shown to be due to the fact that only Munda patrilines are truly Austro-Asiatic (Haplogroup O2a); Munda mitochondrial DNA is entirely unrelated to Chinese or Southeast Asian mtDNA, which indicates that very few or no females accompanied the male Austro-Asiatic colonists on their diaspora from East/Southeast Asia to South Asia. Ebizur 16:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
