The Austronesian languages are not African languages, but, they are related to African languages. It would appear that Oceanians and Africans, for example share place-names, lexical items and haplogroups.
There is constant changes in the terminology for haplogroups as researchers attempt to imply that Africans carry one set of genes, and other populations outside Africa carry a different and unique set of genes. Although this is the case in many cases the populations are carrying African genes--whose name has been changed to erase any unity between Sub-Saharan Africa and everyone else.
For example, Africans and Melanesians share haplogroups.
In fact, Oceanians share place-names with African and Dravidian speakers. Shared place names in Melanesia suggest that the Melanesians may have recently came to the Pacific from Africa, as claimed by the Fijians.
Some of the ancient Melanesians may have belonged to the Niger-Congo and Dravidian speaking communities that formerly lived in the Sahara-Sahel region until 5-6kya. If this is true, Melanesians may have formerly lived in Africa , in addition to South China and Southeast Asia before they sailed to the Pacific Islands. Africans may have come to Oceania in two waves. First as part of the expansion of megalithic culture from Africa to the Pacific . Other Proto-Melanesians were probably part of the Lapita migrations
In the figure below we see cognate Mande, an African language spoken in West Africa and the Sahel region of Africa, and Melanesian terms for vase, pot, arrow, cattle/ox, and fish. They also shared agricultural terms as well
- Polynesian English Manding
*talun fallow, land daa
*tanem to plant daa
*suluq torch, flame suu
*kuDen cooking pot,bowl ku
As you can see the Melanesians and Africans are not only negroid they also share genes, placenames and culture terms. This supports the view Austronesian languages are related to African languages.
Reference:
Clyde Winters,AFRICAN AND DRAVIDIAN ORIGINS OF THE MELANESIANS , Indian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Life Sciences ISSN: 2231-6345 http://www.cibtech.org/J-LIFE-SCIENCES/PUBLICATIONS/2014/Vol-4-No-3/JLS-103-JLS-073-JUN-CLYDE-AFRICAN-MELANESIANS.pdf
