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  1. The Austroasiatic languages [note 1] / ˌɒstroʊ.eɪʒiˈætɪk /, / ˌɔː -/, also known as Mon–Khmer / moʊn kəˈmɛər /, are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia

    Southeast Asia

    Southeast Asia, or Southeastern Asia, is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China and Japan, east of India, west of Papua New Guinea, and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the …

    and South Asia
    . These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, India, Bangladesh

    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's 8th-most populous country with a population exceeding 162,951,560 people. In area, it is the 92nd-largest country, spanning 147,570 square kilometres. It shares land borders with In…

    , Nepal

    Nepal

    Nepal, officially Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is located mainly in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. With an estimated population of 26.4 million, it is 48th largest country by population and 93rd largest co…

    , and southern China and are the majority languages of Vietnam and Cambodia

    Cambodia

    Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is 181,035 square kilometres in area, bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to th…

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    Geographic distribution: Southeast, South, and East Asia
    Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families
    Proto-language: Proto-Austroasiatic
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    What are Austroasiatic languages?Austroasiatic languages (also known as the Mon-Khmer languages) are one of Southeast Asia’s largest language families. The family contains a whopping 160 distinct languages, spoken over a broad geographical area.
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    When did the Austroasiatic language family diversify?Paul Sidwell (2018) considers the Austroasiatic language family to have rapidly diversified around 4,000 years B.P. during the arrival of rice agriculture in Indochina, but notes that the origin of Proto-Austroasiatic itself is older than that date. The lexicon of Proto-Austroasiatic can be divided into an early and late stratum.
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    How many languages are in the Austronesian language family?Size and geographic scope. With approximately 1,200 members, the Austronesian language family includes about one-fifth of the world’s languages. Only the Niger-Congo family of Africa approaches it in number of languages, although both the Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan language families have considerably more speakers.
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    What are the phonological characteristics of the Austroasiatic languages?Phonological characteristics. The sound systems of Austroasiatic languages are fairly similar to each other, but Vietnamese and the Muṇḍā languages, under the influence of Chinese and Indian languages respectively, have diverged considerably from the original type.
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    Paul Sidwell (2018) considers the Austroasiatic language family to have rapidly diversified around 4,000 years B.P. during the arrival of rice agriculture in Indochina, but notes that the origin of Proto-Austroasiatic itself is older than that date. The lexicon of Proto-Austroasiatic can be divided into an early … See more

    The Austroasiatic languages /ˌɒstroʊ.eɪʒiˈætɪk/, /ˌɔː-/, also known as Mon–Khmer /moʊn kəˈmɛər/, are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered … See more

    Regarding word structure, Austroasiatic languages are well known for having an iambic "sesquisyllabic" pattern, with basic nouns and verbs consisting of an initial, unstressed, reduced See more

    Linguists traditionally recognize two primary divisions of Austroasiatic: the Mon–Khmer languages of Southeast Asia, Northeast India and the Nicobar Islands, and the See more

    Austric languages
    Austroasiatic is an integral part of the controversial Austric hypothesis, which also includes the Austronesian languages, and in some … See more

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    The name Austroasiatic comes from a combination of the Latin words for "South" and "Asia", hence "South Asia". See more

    Much work has been done on the reconstruction of Proto-Mon–Khmer in Harry L. Shorto's Mon–Khmer Comparative Dictionary. Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented. With their demotion from a primary branch, … See more

    Other than Latin-based alphabets, many Austroasiatic languages are written with the Khmer, Thai, Lao, and Burmese alphabets. Vietnamese divergently had an indigenous script based on Chinese logographic writing. This has since been supplanted by the … See more

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  4. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austroasiatic-languages

    Austroasiatic languages, also spelled Austro-Asiatic, stock of some 150 languages spoken by more than 65 million people scattered throughout Southeast Asia and eastern India. Most of …

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    • This is an interesting one. The term Austroasiatic is actually an Anglicization of the Latin term austro (meaning “south”) prefixed to the adjective asiatic. However, the name is a colonial one — a western label, commonly used in academic circles. Calling it the Mon-Khmer language family would be more accurate. Although this is used less often, it’...
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  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages

    Genealogical links have been proposed between Austronesian and various families of East and Southeast Asia.
    An Austro-Tai proposal linking Austronesian and the Kra-Dai languages of the southeastern continental Asian mainland was first proposed by Paul K. Benedict, and is supported by Weera Ostapirat, Roger Blench, and Laurent Sagart, base…

  7. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austronesian-languages

    Austronesian languages, formerly Malayo-Polynesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for …

  8. https://languagesgulper.com/eng/Austroasiatic.html

    Austroasiatic languages are indigenous to Southeast Asia constituting a large and heterogeneous family. In prehistoric times some Austroasiatic groups migrated into South Asia producing a major division between the Munda …

  9. languagesgulper.com/eng/Austroasiatic.html

    Austroasiatic languages are indigenous to Southeast Asia constituting a large and heterogeneous family. In prehistoric times some Austroasiatic groups migrated into South Asia producing a major division between the Munda …

  10. Which Languages Belongs To The Austroasiatic Family?

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    Khmer is a member of the Austroasiatic language family, the autochthonous family in an area that stretches from the Malay Peninsula through Southeast Asia to East India. Austroasiatic, …

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages

    The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in …

  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_families

    245 rows · By number of languages [ edit] Ethnologue 24 (2021) lists the following families that contain at least 1% of the 7,139 known languages in the world: Niger–Congo (1,542 languages) (21.7%) Austronesian (1,257 …

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