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	Austro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Nicobarese languages (6 languages) of the Nicobar Islands, a territory of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austroasiatic_languages (402 words)

	Austro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Linguists recognize two major divisions of Austroasiatic, the Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia and the Munda languages of east-central and central India.
		Nicobar (6 languages) of the Nicobar Islands, a territory of India.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Austroasiatic_language (391 words)

	Learn more about Language families and languages in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most languages are known to belong to language families (called simply "families" for the rest of this article).
		Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram).
		Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/language_families_and_languages.html (483 words)

	AllRefer.com - Southeast Asian languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		There is considerable evidence but as yet no definite proof that these groups are derived from a single ancestor language, which is the essential requirement for classification in the same linguistic family.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SthEAslang.html (283 words)

	Khmer language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages.
		As result of their geographic proximity, the Khmer language has influenced Thai and Laotian and vice versa.
		Khmer is somewhat unusual among its neighboring languages (Thai, Laotian and Vietnamese) in that it is not a tonal language.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Khmer_language (616 words)

	Bambooweb: Khasi
		Khasi is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the four districts of Meghalaya state in India, namely East Khasi Hills district, West Khasi Hills district, Jaiñtia Hills district and Ri Bhoi district.
		It is related to the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and unrelated to the Mundari branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is widespread in East-Central India (Jharkhand state).
		The language is also spoken by a number of people in the hill districts of Assam bordering with Meghalaya and by a sizable population of people living in Bangladesh close to the border of India.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/k/h/Khasi.html (231 words)

	Austronesian languages - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1244 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island).
		The Malayo-Polynesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word - such as wiki-wiki), and have highly restrictive phonotactics, with small numbers of phonemes and predominantly consonant-vowel syllables, so that texts are quite repetitive in terms of the frequency of sounds.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Austronesian_language (625 words)

	Southeast Asian languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Languages of the Mon-Khmer subfamily include Cambodian (or Khmer), Mon (or Talaing), and a number of other languages, such as Cham of Cambodia and southern Vietnam, Semang and Sakai of the Malay Peninsula, Nicobarese of the Nicobar Islands, and Khasi of Assam in India.
		The languages of the Munda subfamily are spoken in parts of N and central India and comprise more than 20 tongues, the most important of which is Santali.
		The Munda languages use affixes extensively and are agglutinative.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/SthEAslang.html (529 words)

	Tones (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		This is noteworthy, considering that the language families found to the north—Tai-Kadai, Sino-Tibetan, and Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao)—all have tones.
		The word tone is usually applied to those languages (called tone languages) in which pitch serves to help distinguish words and grammatical categories—i.e., in which pitch characteristics are used to differentiate one word from another word that is otherwise identical in its sequence of consonants and...
		The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-74993 (811 words)

	Read about Austro-Asiatic languages at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Austro-Asiatic languages and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later movements of people.
		Viet-Muong or Vietic (10 languages) of Vietnam and
		Laos, includes the Vietnamese language, which has the most speakers of any Austroasiatic language.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Austroasiatic_languages (309 words)

	Language School Explorer - Vietnamese_language information.
		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.
		In fact, as the vernacular language of Vietnam gradually grew in prestige toward the beginning of the second millennium, the Vietnamese language was written using Chinese characters (see Chu Nom) adapted to write Vietnamese, in a similar pattern as used in Japan (see kanji), Korea and other countries in the Chinese cultural sphere.
	www.school-explorer.com /Vietnamese (3036 words)

	Asian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages.
		Indo-European languages are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia:
		The Altaic languages are a somewhat disputed grouping.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Asian_languages (138 words)

	Vocabulary (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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.
		Two main varieties have been distinguished: the first includes the extinct South African languages !Ora and Gri (click for an audio clip of !Ora) and the dialects that were spoken along the southern Cape coast; the second type is Nama, also known as Nama/Damara and...
		They—and a number of lesser-known languages and dialects—are all derived from medieval Latin dialects spoken in areas of Europe governed by the Roman Empire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-74998 (770 words)

	Austroasiatic Languages: Munda and Mon-Khmer
		Austroasiatic Languages: Munda (India) and Mon-Khmer (SE Asia)
		Patricia J. Donegan & David Stampe, Rhythm and the synthetic drift of Munda (.pdf file), in Rajendra Singh (ed.), The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2004.3-36.
		A hypertext grammar of the Mon language, from Aaron Broadwell's fieldwork course at the University of Albany.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/aa.html (391 words)

	All words on Austroasiatic languages
		Some linguists have attempted to prove that Austroasiatic languages are related to Austronesian languages, thus forming the Austric superfamily.
		* Northern Mon-Khmer languages (38 languages), includes the Khasi language of India's Meghalaya state, the Khmu language of Laos, and other languages of northern Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, and southern China.
		* Viet-Muong or Vietic languages (10 languages), includes the Vietnamese language, which has the most speakers of any Austroasiatic language, and other languages of Vietnam and Laos.
	www.allwords.org /au/austroasiatic-languages.html (635 words)

	Munda languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Munda languages differ from all other Austroasiatic languages in complexity of morphology and in having basic subject-object-verb rather than subject-verb-object word order.
		The languages of the region are generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic (Munda in particular), and Sino-Tibetan.
		Fourteen languages are mentioned in the constitution of India: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi,...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9372816?tocId=9372816 (699 words)

	Austroasiatic languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		language of the North Bahnaric subbranch of Bahnaric, a branch of the Mon-Khmer family (itself a part of the Austroasiatic languages.
		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)

	Austroasiatic Languages History Summary
		The common ancestry of the Austroasiatic languages is shown by their retention of a distinctive basic vocabulary, which readily identifies that group.
		Despite their common origins, Austroasiatic languages are structurally diverse, principally because many of them have been influenced by other, very different, language families for a long time.
		The classification of Austroasiatic languages is a difficult issue, particularly because many of the languages are not well known or studied, while the better-known ones have borrowed significant lexicon and even grammar from unrelated languages such as Chinese, Pali, and Malay.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/austroasiatic-languages-ema-01 (991 words)

	Austroasiatic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicobar languages (6 languages) includes the languages of the Nicobar Islands, part of India.
		Northern Mon-Khmer languages (38 languages), includes the Khasi language of India's Meghalaya province, the Khmu language of Laos, and other languages of northern Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, and southern China.
		Viet-Muong or Vietic languages (10 languages), includes the Vietnamese language, which has the most speakers of any Austroasiatic language, and other languages of Vietnam and Laos.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Austroasiatic-languages.htm (359 words)

	Syntax (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		In a language such as English, the main device for showing the relationship among words is word order; e.g., in “The girl loves the boy,” the subject is in initial position, and the object follows the verb.
		The subbranch consists of three languages spoken in southern and central Malaysia: Betise' (previously known as Mah Meri, or Besisi), Semelai, and Semaq Beri.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=74997 (811 words)

	Mon-Khmer Languages History Summary
		Mon-Khmer is a language family of mainland Southeast Asia that includes the national languages Cambodian (Khmer) and Vietnamese and more than a hundred minority languages spoken in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), India, and China.
		However, the question of whether there really is a Mon-Khmer family, as opposed to Austroasiatic, and what languages belong in it, is far from clear, and views changed many times in the course of the twentieth century.
		Today many Mon-Khmer languages are endangered; that is, they have fewer than two thousand speakers and are no longer being spoken by the youngest generation, who learn only national languages in school.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/mon-khmer-languages-ema-04 (928 words)

	langpg4
		The Munda languages are spoken in east-central India and Nepal.
		The Mon-Khmer languages are spoken in northeastern India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, two provinces of southern China, and the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean (as well as in emigrant communities in a number of other countries across the world).
		A list of all the languages belonging to the AA family can be seen in the Ethnologue section of the Summer Institute of Linguistics web site.
	home.att.net /~lvhayes/Langling/langpg4.htm (723 words)

	Malayo-Polynesian languages on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These languages have come to be widely understood in their respective countries, although not always as a first language.
		Melanesian languages are found on the islands of Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Bismarck Archipelago, and New Guinea.
		The Malayo-Polynesian languages exhibit an abundance of vowels and a comparative paucity of consonants.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MalayoP1o.asp (537 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.
		Khmer is the national language of the country of Cambodia; it is also spoken in Vietnam and Thailand.
		Temiar is spoken in Malaysia (on the Malay peninsula).
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austroah.htm (671 words)

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