Talk:Vietnamese/@comment-116.102.155.214-20170315084549/@comment-28254399-20170723180419

South-East Asia & East Asia are politiczed-geographical terms and make no cultural, anthropological, or linguistic sense. In real-life, geography, architure, anthropology, & languages do not always correspond on a 1-on1 basis.

The Sinicized East Asian cultural sphere indisputably include China, Vietnam, Japan, & Korean peninsula. Yet the dominant groups in all these: Hua, Kinh, Yamato, & Han speak completely unrelated languages.

Anthropolically speaking, well, all humans originated from Africa; Vietnamese, Burmese, Thais, Chams, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. all descend from South-East Asian men carrying Y-DNA haplogroup O-M175 (Shi et al. 2005, Wang & Li 2013, Cai et al. 2011). So it is pointless to nitpickingly identify who is SEAn or EAn.

Linguistically speaking, yes, Kinh & other Vietic languages are related to Khmer as Austro-Asiatic languages (but not Cham language, which is related to Malay Malgasy,, Formosan, Polynesian languages in the Austronesian phylum). Even so, Khmer & Cham architectures are heavily Indianized, even though thosee two peoples are not related linguistically.