This list of 436 items, which is also called the MSEA list («Mainland Southeast Asia Wordlist») was developed as an extension from an earlier list of SIL 1980 281 which was developed in the 1960s and 1970s for comparative studies in Vietnam and Cambodia (Mann 2004). It is not entirely clear what the symbols in the column SUBLIST are supposed to mean. In the original, the column is not given any name, and it is only our interpretatin that they point to specific sublists, but there does not seem to be a clear overlap with known sublists (especially not the list of 281 items or any of the lists by Swadesh).