Days, weeks, months and years in Khasi and Garo
u/tuluva_sikh — 3 days ago
r/Austroasiatic
What was the peak expansion of Austroasiatic/Munda people in ancient India and why didn't they expand or persist as successfully as Dravidian and Indo-Aryan groups?
Munda Maritime Hypothesis postulates that Austroasiatic people came via sea to the Indian subcontinent 4000 years back.
Vedic Scholar Michael Witzel identified multiple non -IE loanwords in Rigveda arguing that early IA speakers interacted closely with Proto-Munda/Austroasiatic population.
There is Munda influence in the Nihali language.
So apart from the current core Munda territory(east coast States), the above two examples show they may have expanded to the Northwest,Deccan and possibly further South.
u/poacher-2k — 4 days ago
Insular Southeast Asia before the Austronesian Expansion based on genetic and linguistic evidence by brett_f
u/AleksiB1 — 5 days ago
Why didnt the island hopping Nicobarese continue settling into the Andamans? They had advanced mainland technology and could've easily taken over the trapped since ice age Andamanese. Similarly why did the Austronesians stop at Sumatra and didnt take over both of them?
LLMs arent giving believable answers like the 10 degree channel were too long for travel when Nicobars are equally far from Sumatra and Andamans. Not to mention the Mundas crossed the bay to reach Odisa. The Austronesians went as far as Madagascar.
u/AleksiB1 — 5 days ago
Wiktionary claims दक daka "water" is from an apheretic form of उ॒द॒क udaká instead of Munda dak but is apheresis really found in Sanskrit? Never seen any other term which went through it
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u/AleksiB1 — 5 days ago
The Khasi Tribe: men take their wives' names and own absolutely nothing daughters inherit everything and men have no property rights.
u/AleksiB1 — 10 days ago
Distribution of Indigenous Nicobarese Languages of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
u/DesignerRespect2977 — 11 days ago
Roger Blench (2023) - Rongic: A vanished branch of Austroasiatic
evols.library.manoa.hawaii.eduu/fries-eggpanvol8647 — 11 days ago
Sora unique counting system (interview by Dr. Greg Anderson & David Harrison)
Cre: documentary film The Linguists (2008)
u/fries-eggpanvol8647 — 11 days ago