Sampan

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Sampan on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), China YangtzeSampan.jpg
Sampan on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), China
  1. 1 2 Manguin, Pierre-Yves (2012). "Asian ship-building traditions in the Indian Ocean at the dawn of European expansion". In Prakash, Om; Chattopadhyaya, D. P. (eds.). History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian Civilization. Vol. III, part 7: The trading world of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800. Delhi, Chennai, Chandigarh: Pearson. pp. 597–629. Another well-known word of possible Austronesian origin is sampan, attested in a 684 CE old Malay inscription, which also appears in Tamil and Sri Lankan (as it does in Khmer, Thai, Burmese, Mon and Chinese).
  2. Merriam Webster online dictionary
  3. Hoogervorst, Tom (2012). Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean world (PhD). University of Oxford.
  4. "How to Scull a Boat", WOODEN BOAT #100, June 1991.
Sampan
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