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	Austroasiatic languages
		The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family of Southeast Asia and India.
		Austroasiatic languages have a disjunct distribution across India and Southeast Asia, separated by regions where other languages are spoken.
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later movements of people.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Austroasiatic_languages (349 words)

	Austro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family of Southeast Asia and India.
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later migrations of people.
		Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, of which 147 are Mon-Khmer languages and 21 are Munda languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austroasiatic_languages (402 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vietnamese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austroasiatic languages put together).
		Vietnamese is part of the Viet-Muong grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
		Vietnamese is generally said to be part of the Viet-Muong (or Vietic) grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vietnamese_language/Classification (1183 words)

	Austroasiatic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Austroasiatic languages have a disjunct distribution across India and Southeast Asia, separated by regions where otherlanguages are spoken.
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region,including the Indo European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later movements of people.
		The Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, ofwhich 147 are Mon-Khmer languages and 21 are Munda languages.
	www.therfcc.org /austroasiatic-language-38828.html (254 words)

	Austroasiatic language - guideofcasinos.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo-European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later migrations of people.
		Linguists traditionally recognize two primary divisions of Austroasiatic, the Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia and the Munda languages of east-central and central India.
		Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, of which 147 are Mon-Khmer and 21 are Munda.
	www.guideofcasinos.com /Austroasiatic_language.html (501 words)

	Langpg7
		Austroasiatic is spoken in certain areas of southern China, and a variety of evidence indicates that the domain of its speakers once extended into southeastern China.
		Austronesian has not undergone the massive reduction experienced by Austroasiatic, and the canonic form of AN proto-forms is predominantly bi- and trisyllabic.
		Using the hypothetical example, one may find only reflexes of pik in Austroasiatic, only of bug in Austronesian, and while these reflexes are technically not direct correspondents, they are all the data that is available and must be compared, if any comparing is to be done at all.
	home.att.net /~lvhayes/Langling/langpg7.htm (1347 words)

	Austroasiatic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later migrations of people.
		(There are, for example, Austroasiatic words in the Tibeto-Burman languages of eastern Nepal.) Some linguists have attempted to prove that Austroasiatic languages are related to Austronesian languages, thus forming the Austric superfamily.
		Linguists traditionally recognize two major divisions of Austroasiatic, the Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia and the Munda languages of east-central and central India.
	sports.abcworld.net /Austroasiatic_languages.html (376 words)

	Southeast Asian languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The use of the term Southeast Asian languages in this article is based on linguistic considerations; however, the term is also employed by some scholars in a geographical sense to include three distinct language families of the region, namely, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Sino-Tibetan languages, and Mon-Khmer languages.
		A grouping together of the Malayo-Polynesian and Southeast Asian (or Austroasiatic) languages into a single Austric family has also been proposed on the basis of certain phonetic, lexical, and grammatical similarities, but this grouping has not yet been generally accepted.
		The classification of Vietnamese is still disputed; some regard it as a Mon-Khmer tongue, others as a Tai (or Thai) language (see Sino-Tibetan languages), and still others as a language unrelated to any other known tongue.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/SthEAslang.html (529 words)

	Austroasiatic languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The present fragmented distribution of Austroasiatic languages is most likely the result of relatively recent incursions by Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai, and Austronesian-speaking peoples.
		In prehistoric times Austroasiatic languages most likely extended over a much broader and more continuous area, including much of what is now southeastern China.
		Palaungic languages are spoken primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and secondarily in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan province in China.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9356178 (755 words)

	Search Results for Austroasiatic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The work of classifying and comparing the Austroasiatic languages is still in the initial stages.
		Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands and once considered to form a distinct family within the Austroasiatic stock.
		The sound systems of Austroasiatic languages are fairly similar to each other, but Vietnamese and the Munda languages, under the influence of Chinese and Indian languages respectively, have diverged...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Austroasiatic&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (337 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are...
		Austroasiatic languages Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) languages Hmong-Mien languages Japonic languages (or Fuyu languages) Papuan languages (multiple unrelated families) Sino-Tibetan languages Tai-Kadai...
		Austroasiatic (languages spoken in Southeast Asia) Vietnamese tho Austronesian (languages spoken in Taiwan, Oceania, Madagascar and Hawai'i) Malayo-Polynesian Bahasa Malaysia arnab Hawaiian lapaki...
	austroasiatic_languages.iqexpand.com (532 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Austroasiatic
		The present fragmented distribution of Austroasiatic languages is...
		Family of about 130 Austroasiatic languages, spoken by more than 80 million people in South and Southeast Asia.
		Munda languages are spoken by more than seven million people, all members of tribal groups living mainly in hilly and forested regions.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Austroasiatic (602 words)

	Vietnamese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (three to four times the number of speakers of Khmer, the second most spoken Austroasiatic language).
		Vietnamese is generally said to be part of the Viet-Muong (or Vietic) grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
		It seems likely that in the distant past Vietnamese shared more characteristics common to other languages in the Austroasiatic family, such as an inflectional morphology and a richer set of consonant clusters, which have subsequently disappeared from the language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese_language (3257 words)

	Austroasiatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If the geographical location is correct, the Austroasiatics were to the east of the proto-Tai and the proto-Burmans.
		The Mons, close linguistic relatives of the Khmer, were in southern Myanmar ca1000 BCE, where already to the north there were early Burmans from Yunnan.
		At the time, the descendants of the Austroasiatics were occupying South East Asia from the Irrawaddy delta (Myanmar) to Cambodia and Vietnam.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/a/Austroasiatics.htm (422 words)

	Vocabulary (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The composition of the vocabulary of the Austroasiatic languages reflects their history.
		Vietnamese, Mon, and Khmer, the best-known languages of the family, came within the orbit of larger civilizations and borrowed without restraint—Vietnamese from Chinese, Mon and Khmer from Sanskrit and Pali.
		More results on "Vocabulary (from Austroasiatic languages)" when you join.
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	Austric languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Austric language superfamily is a large theoretical grouping of languages primarily spoken in South East Asia and the Pacific.
		In 1942, Paul K. Benedict proposed an Austric super family which included not only the Austronesian and Austroasiatic languages, but also the Tai-Kadai languages, and the Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) languages.
		Despite missing lexical evidence, the relationship between Austronesian and Austroasiatic languages has many proponents to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austric_languages (343 words)

	Austroasiatic languages - Encyclopedia.com
		The present fragmented distribution of Austroasiatic languages is most likely the result of relatively recent incursions by Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai, and Austronesian-speaking peoples.
		In prehistoric times Austroasiatic languages most likely extended over a much broader and more continuous area, including much of what is now southeastern China.
		Other than Vietnamese and Khmer, no Austroasiatic language is an official national language.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-356178.html (289 words)

	langpg3
		The languages of the AA family are spoken in India, the Indo-China peninsula, southern China, and the Nicobar archepelago in the Indian Ocean.
		In 1906, Schmidt proposed that Austroasiatic and Austronesian be grouped into a new Austric phylum and presented phonological, morphological, and lexical evidence in support of this hypothesis.
		The consensus of the linguists who have looked into the matter has been that the phonological and morphological evidence is convincing, but not the lexical, and for that reason, Austric has never been generally accepted as a valid taxonomic unit.
	home.att.net /~lvhayes/Langling/langpg3.htm (380 words)

	Vietic languages Information
		The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family.
		Vietnamese was identified as an Austroasiatic language in the mid nineteenth century, and there is now solid evidence for this classification.
		However, these typological similarities are superficial, the result of language contact, and can be traced back to a much more typical Austroasiatic pattern.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Vietic_languages (294 words)

	Vietnamese language explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although it contains many vocabulary borrowings from Chinese and was originally written using Chinese characters, it is considered by linguists to be one of the Austroasiatic languages, of which it has the most speakers (it has 10 times the number of speakers as the next most-spoken language, the Khmer language).
		Vietnamese is part of the Viet-Muong grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
		More broadly, as part of the Austroasiatic language family, Vietnamese is also considered part of the Austric superfamily (which also includes the Austronesian languages such as Malay, Cham, Malagasy, Maori and Hawai'ian), although the Austric superfamily grouping itself is disputed.
	www.wordspider.net /vi/vietnamese-language.html (2381 words)

	Classification of Mon-Khmer languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We may even take the rather bold step of suggesting that the geographical distribution of these languages indicates that the AA proto-language was born somewhere in the vicinity of the Bay of Bengal, at a time before Indo-Aryan or Tibeto-burman influence had penetrated the region.
		Although the work does have some serious shortcomings, it really established the Austroasiatic family on a scientific basis, including a solid body of etymologies and phonological correspondences that allow us to identify many of the essential features of the family and make reliable inferences about its history.
		At the 1973 Austroasiatic Conference in Hawaii Shorto presented his model of PMK vocalism, based on a binary comparison of Mon and Khmer, it was a sophisticated reworking of Schmidt 1905.
	www.anu.edu.au /~u9907217/languages/AAlecture1.html (4120 words)

	Vietnam - ETHNIC GROUPS
		Vietnamese, the official language, is the mother tongue of the vast majority of the people and is understood by many national minority members.
		According to a widely accepted theory, Vietnamese is believed to be related to the Austroasiatic family of languages, which includes various languages, dialects, and subdialects spoken in mainland Southeast Asia from Burma to Vietnam.
		Scholarship nonetheless is tentative on whether Vietnamese, which was spoken in the Red River Delta long before the Christian era, was influenced by Mon-Khmer or Tai, both Austroasiatic subsets.
	countrystudies.us /vietnam/35.htm (739 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Austroasiatic
		You have reached the page for Austroasiatic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Temiar is spoken in Malaysia (on the Malay peninsula).
		Many linguists now consider this group to be a sub-branch of the Austroasiatic branch of the Austric family of languages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austroah.htm (671 words)

	glosspg1.htm
		Thus, the writer's approach is an attempt to overcome this obstacle by by-passing it.
		Hot-wiring the system in this manner introduces a certain degree of inaccuracy and unreliability into the reconstruction, but the writer feels that the overall progress made will more than adequately compensate for those deficiencies, which can in any case be corrected at a later date.
		Detecting the many phonological, morphological, and semantic changes involved is akin to peeling an onion: finding and removing one layer of diachronic changes only exposes a new layer, and one repeatedly learns that one didn't know quite as much as previously thought.
	home.att.net /~lvhayes/Langling/Glossary/glosspg1.htm (671 words)

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