The Austroasiatic languages / ˌ ɒ s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k /, / ˌ ɔː-/, also known as Mon–Khmer / m oʊ n k ə ˈ m ɛər /, are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia.These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are the majority languages of Vietnam and Cambodia.

The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques. The origin of language is a hotly contested topic, with some languages tentatively traced back to the …

There are approximately a hundred languages spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma). Burmese, spoken by two-thirds of the population, is the official language.. Languages spoken by ethnic minorities represent six language families: Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai–Kadai, Indo-European, Austronesian and Hmong–Mien, as well as an incipient national standard for …

Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ or also 中文; Zhōngwén, especially for the written language) is a group of languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China.

It also introduced tone marks. Thai is considered to be the first script in the world that invented tone markers to indicate distinctive tones, which are lacking in the Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic languages) and Indo-Aryan languages from which its script is derived.

An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants. In contrast, a dead language is one that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use, like Latin. A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic identity to a particular group.

Northeast India (officially North Eastern Region, NER) is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.. The region shares an international border of 5,182 kilometres (3,220 mi) (about 99 …

The dhole (/ d oʊ l /; Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South, East, and Southeast Asia.Other English names for the species include Asian wild dog, Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red dog, and mountain wolf. [page needed] It is genetically close to species within the genus Canis,: Fig. 10 but distinct in several anatomical aspects: its skull is convex rather …

Klassifikation. Die genetische Einordnung der vietnamesischen Sprache ist umstritten, sie gehört zu den Mon-Khmer-Sprachen innerhalb der austroasiatischen Sprachfamilie.Dies geht auf die Sprachwissenschaftler Jean Przyluski und A.-G. Haudricourt zurück, die Vietnamesisch mit der Mường-Sprache (㗂????) verglichen, die zwar keine Tonsprache ist, aber trotzdem nachweislich …

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns.