Austronesian and Chinese words for the millets Laurent Sagart, Tze-Fu Hsu, Yuan-Ching Tsai, Yue-Ie Hsing To cite this version: Laurent Sagart, Tze-Fu Hsu, Yuan-Ching Tsai, Yue-Ie Hsing. Austronesian and Chinese words for the millets. Language Dynamics and Change, 2017, 7 (2), pp.187-209. 10.1163/22105832-00702002. hal-03146013 HAL Id: hal-03146013 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03146013 Submitted on 18 Feb 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Language Dynamics and Change 7 (2017) 187–209 brill.com/ldc Austronesian and Chinese words for the millets* Laurent Sagart Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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[email protected] Abstract After reviewing recent evidence from related disciplines arguing for an origin of the Austronesian peoples in northeastern China, this paper discusses the Proto-Austro- nesian and Old Chinese names of the millets, Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum.