6. Substrata

Today, Austroasiatic substrata and loanwords can be found in:

• 1. East Asian region

     1. Hmong-Mien

     2. Kra

     3. Be

     4. Jiamao

  2. Northeast India region

• • 1. Lepcha

    2. Kuki-Chin-Naga

    3. Sal

    4. Tani

    5. Mru-Khongso

• 3. Insular Southeast Asian region

• • 1. Acehnese

    2. Kerinci Malay

    3. Bornean languages

Genetic evidence (distribution of Y-DNA haplogroup O2a) strongly supports this.