Editing Austronesian languages (section)

===Sino-Austronesian===
{{Main|Sino-Austronesian languages}}
French linguist and [[Sinology|Sinologist]] [[Laurent Sagart]] considers the Austronesian languages to be related to the [[Sino-Tibetan languages]], and also groups the [[Kra–Dai languages]] as more closely related to the [[Malayo-Polynesian languages]].<ref>{{cite book|last=van Driem|first=George|date=2005|chapter=Sino-Austronesian vs. Sino-Caucasian, Sino-Bodic vs. Sino-Tibetan, and Tibeto-Burman as default theory|title=Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics|publication-place=Kathmandu|publisher=Linguistic Society of Nepal|editor1=Yogendra Prasada Yadava|editor2=Govinda Bhattarai|editor3=Ram Raj Lohani|editor4=Balaram Prasain|editor5=Krishna Parajuli|pages=285–338 [304]|chapter-url=http://www.eastling.org/paper/Driem.pdf|access-date=2010-10-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726012439/http://www.eastling.org/paper/Driem.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-26}}</ref> Sagart argues for a north-south genetic relationship between Chinese and Austronesian, based on sound correspondences in the basic vocabulary and morphological parallels.{{sfn|Sagart|Hsu|Tsai|Hsing|2017|p = 188}} Laurent Sagart (2017) concludes that the possession of the two kinds of millets{{efn|''Setaria italica'' and ''Panicum miliaceum''.}} in Taiwanese Austronesian languages (not just Setaria, as previously thought) places the pre-Austronesians in northeastern China, adjacent to the probable Sino-Tibetan homeland.{{sfn|Sagart|Hsu|Tsai|Hsing|2017|p = 188}} Ko et al.'s genetic research (2014) appears to support Laurent Sagart's linguistic proposal, pointing out that the exclusively Austronesian mtDNA E-haplogroup and the largely Sino-Tibetan M9a haplogroup are twin sisters, indicative of an intimate connection between the early Austronesian and Sino-Tibetan maternal gene pools, at least.{{sfn|Sagart|Hsu|Tsai|Hsing|2017|p = 189}}{{sfn|Ko|2014|pp = 426–436}} Additionally, results from Wei et al. (2017) are also in agreement with Sagart's proposal, in which their analyses show that the predominantly Austronesian Y-DNA haplogroup O3a2b*-P164(xM134) belongs to a newly defined haplogroup O3a2b2-N6 being widely distributed along the eastern coastal regions of Asia, from Korea to Vietnam.{{sfn|Wei|Yan|Teo|Huang|2017|pp = 1–12}} Sagart also groups the Austronesian languages in a recursive-like fashion, placing Kra-Dai as a sister branch of Malayo-Polynesian. His methodology has been found to be spurious by his peers.{{sfnp|Winter|2010}}{{sfnp|Blust|2013|pp=710–713, 745–747}}