Editing Munda languages (section)

==Origin==
Many linguists suggest that the [[Proto-Munda language]] probably split from [[proto-Austroasiatic]] somewhere in [[Indochina]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Studies by Chaubey et al. (2011), Arunkumaret al. (2015), Metspalu
et al. (2018), and Tätte et al. (2019) all show that the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family was created as the result of a male-biased linguistic intrusion into the [[Indian subcontinent]] from [[South-east Asia]] during the Late [[Neolithic]] period (Sidwell & Rau 2019 cited Tätte et al. (2019), estimate a date of formation between 3,800 and 2,000 YBPs), which carried the [[Y chromosome|paternal lineage]] [[Haplogroup O-M175|O1b1a1a]] into India, either from [[Meghalaya]] or from the sea.{{sfnp|van Driem|2021|p=186}} These studies and analyses confirm [[George van Driem]]'s Munda Father tongue hypothesis.{{sfnp|van Driem|2021|p=187}} [[Paul Sidwell]] (2018) suggests they arrived on the coast of modern-day [[Odisha]] about 4000–3500 years ago ({{circa|2000|1500}} BCE) and spread after the [[Indo-Aryan migration]] to the region.<ref>Sidwell, Paul. 2018. [https://www.academia.edu/36689736/Austroasiatic_Studies_state_of_the_art_in_2018 Austroasiatic Studies: state of the art in 2018]. Presentation at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 22 May 2018.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sidwell AA studies state of the art 2018.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O3SkrYNq20ZmUgcK-MFPN7QAvByEMfVA/view?usp=embed_facebook |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Google Docs}}</ref>

Rau and Sidwell (2019),<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Rau, Felix|author2=Sidwell, Paul|author-link2=Paul Sidwell|title=The Munda Maritime Hypothesis|date=2019|issn=1836-6821|journal=Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |volume=12|issue=2|hdl=10524/52454}}</ref><ref>Rau, Felix and Paul Sidwell 2019. "The Maritime Munda Hypothesis." ICAAL 8, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 29–31 August 2019. {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.3365316}}</ref> along with Blench (2019),<ref>Blench, Roger. 2019. [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Austroasiatic/Munda%20hypothesis%202019.pdf The Munda maritime dispersal: when, where and what is the evidence?]</ref> suggest that pre-Proto-Munda had arrived in the [[Mahanadi River Delta]] around 1,500 BCE from Southeast Asia via a maritime route, rather than overland. The Munda languages then subsequently spread up the [[Mahanadi]] watershed. 2021 studies suggest that Munda languages impacted [[Eastern Indo-Aryan languages]].<ref>Ivani, Jessica K; Paudyal, Netra; Peterson, John (2021). Indo-Aryan – a house divided? Evidence for the east–west Indo-Aryan divide and its significance for the study of northern South Asia. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 7(2):287–326. {{doi|10.1515/jsall-2021-2029}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355078227|title=The spread of Munda in prehistoric South Asia -the view from areal typology To appear in: Volume in Celebration of the Bicentenary of Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University)|author=John Peterson|date=October 2021|access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Austroasiatic languages map.svg|thumb|Present-day distribution of Austroasiatic languages]]
[[File:Austro-asiatic dispersal map.jpg|thumb|Austro-asiatic dispersal map]]