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(Jump to Puluqish master post)Within Puluqish, the Malayo-Polynesian (MP) and Kra-Dai (KD) languages form a southern clade,&#160; consisting of all Austronesian languages spoken south of Taiwan. I use the term 'Southern Austronesian' (SA). Shared innovations cannot be grammatical since KD preserves morphology indirectly at best and grammar has aligned on Chinese, but they can be phonological or lexical.phonological innovations: Southern Austronesian *sa-puluq-at in numbers 10 to 19 (here)Lexical innovations (here)[cite]