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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Ginger was carried with them in their voyages as [[canoe plant]]s during the [[Austronesian expansion]], starting from around 5,000 [[Before Present|BP]]. They introduced it to the [[Pacific Island]]s in prehistory, long before any contact with other civilizations. [[reflex (linguistics)|Reflexes]] of the [[Proto-Malayo-Polynesian]] word ''*{{lang|mis|laqia}}'' are found in Austronesian languages all the way to [[Hawaii]]. They also presumably introduced it to India along with other Southeast Asian food plants and [[Outrigger canoe|Austronesian sailing technologies]], during early contact by Austronesian sailors with the [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]]-speaking peoples of [[Sri Lanka]] and [[South India]] at around 3,500 [[Before Present|BP]]. It was also carried by Austronesian voyagers into [[Madagascar]] and the [[Comoros]] in the 1st millennium CE.</div>FuzzyBot