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Sino-Austronesian (now Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian) is a proposed language family. Its original version was presented by Laurent Sagart in 1990.[1] Using reconstructions of the Old Chinese language, Sagart argued that the Austronesian languages are related to the Sinitic languages phonologically, lexically and morphologically. Sagart later acknowledged that the Sino-Tibetan languages are a valid group and extended his proposal to include the rest of Sino-Tibetan.[2] Additionally, the Tai–Kadai languages were placed internally within the Austronesian family as a sister branch of Malayo-Polynesian ([3]). In the same paper, Sagart presented a phylogeny of the early phase of the Austronesian family.
Laurent Sagart has also shown that his Sino-Austronesian proposal does not contradict genetic studies in any major way.[4][5] If compared with genetic evidence, the Sino-Austronesian family would fall within Haplogroup O, a paternally-transmitted human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.
Related proposals include Austric (Wilhelm Schmidt), Austro-Tai (Paul K. Benedict), and Dené–Caucasian (Sergei Starostin).
Ostapirat (2005)[6] supports the link between Austronesian and Kra–Dai (Sagart built upon Ostapirat's findings), but rejects a link to Sino-Tibetan. He notes that the apparent cognates are rarely found in all branches of Kra–Dai, and almost none are in core vocabulary.
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Tai languages, Kra languages, Kam–Sui languages, Austronesian languages, Austroasiatic languages
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Taiwan, Taiwanese aborigines, Austronesian languages, Rukai language, Tsou language
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Austronesian languages, Tai–Kadai languages, Austroasiatic languages, Sino-Tibetan languages, Uto-Aztecan languages
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