This paper talks about Chinese loanwords in selected Southeast Asian languages (Khmer, Thai, Hmong, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Indonesian) and compares how different Chinese words got into different SEA languages depending on how the Chinese integrated with the local population.
This article discusses the origin of the Austronesian people, who rapidly spread across the Pacific and as far as Madagascar. Many Austronesian words and cultural practices are shared in the modern day. Austronesian people include the indigenous people of Taiwan, Oceania (Polynesians, Micronesians, and some Melanesian groups), the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. There are also Austronesian groups in mainland Southeast Asia.
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