Bellwood, Peter (1997). Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Blust, Robert (1999). "Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative linguistics." Symposium Series of the Institute of Linguistics (Academia Sinica).
这两位是南岛语族研究的权威学者,提出并论证了南岛语族由台湾原住民族向南扩散的理论。
Adelaar, K. Alexander, & Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Routledge.
Bellwood, Peter (2011). "The checkered prehistory of rice movement southwards as a domesticated cereal—from the Yangzi to the equator." Rice.
考古学显示水稻种植技术是随南岛人扩散传播,从台湾到菲律宾再到沙巴。
基因学研究
Jinam, Timothy et al. (2017). "Discerning the origins of the Negritos, First Sundaland People: deep divergence and archaic admixture." Genome Biology and Evolution.
Lipson, Mark et al. (2014). "Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia." Nature Communications.
The Yunnan theory (published in 1889) – The theory of Proto-Malays originating from Yunnan approximately 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. The theory is supported by R.H Geldern and his team who theorised that their migration occurred from the Mekong River to the Malay Peninsula.