East Asian languages

Early proposals of similar linguistic macrophylla, in narrower scope:[1] Precursors to the East Asian proposal: Stanley Starosta's (2005)[16] East Asian proposal includes a "Yangzian" branch, consisting of Austroasiatic and Hmong–Mien, to form an East Asian superphylum.

[18] The following tree of East Asian superphylum (macrofamily) was proposed by George van Driem in 2012 at the 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium, held at the Benares Hindu University.

[20] (Further information: Father Tongue hypothesis) According to Michael D. Larish, the languages of Southeast and East Asia descended from one proto-language (which he calls "Proto-Asian").

The other branch consists of the Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien and Sino-Tibetan languages.

[21][22] Below is a comparison of basic vocabulary items for proto-languages of all 5 East Asian language families.

Location of the Peiligang culture
Modern distribution of basal O-M175, which expanded from southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.