User talk:Mojojojoinhawaii

Responding to Vietnamese people
The vietnamese may be a mix of tai-kadai, but if you look at their gographic area they're surround by Daic people. The Mon-khmers however can be traced to the North because wet rice agriculture, all Daic terms for rice related things derived from Mon-Khmer. Mon-Khmer have the world's richest vocabulary for anything having to do with rice, and the word for water buffalo came from the same root as the one for rats. It is essential to cultivate rice because of its soggy hooves. Now the reason they have the closest relatives are all Mon-khmers, eventhought they and the muong are heavily influence by chinese and Daic. Its not even far fetched to say the vietnamese are more related to khmers than khmers are to the Mons, one of the other major group in Mon-khmer. The Khmers and viets share the same sub branch of Mon-khmer, thats why eventhought they have only 30% or so of the vocabulary in common, they are actually related and not borrowed like Daic terms. When they say 30% of vocabulary are related, they mean that only 30% are basic vocabulary, its much better than a case of Daic 10% when they are essentially surrounded by Daic. Leaki 21:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)