Gang or Hé, the Eastern Asian ways to call river that reveal history Yangtze River seen from space, image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio United States Geological Survey Before the Ice Age ended 11,700 years ago, Japan and Korea were connected; Okinawa Islands were on the verge of the Asian Continent; Taiwan and Hainan Islands were also included in the Asian Continent. There was no Taiwan Strait. The Austronesian people, or their ancestors, inhabited the Eastern Asia Continent along the Pacific coast.  They must have had a common language before they had evolved and divided into various groups later.  By comparing the word for “river” in Taiwanese, Korean, and language of southern part of China, we have found they all have a common origin of cognate “gang”. And the root word “ga” shifted to “ka” in some occasions. World map of Ice Age, Image credit: SouthEast Asian Water And Power Alliance Occupying an...