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	austro-asiatic languages - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		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 movements of people.
		Palaungic (21 languages) of Myanmar, southern China, and Thailand.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/austro-asiatic-languages (333 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (R) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rajah Kabunsuwan Manobo is a language spoken in the Philippines.
		Remontado Agta is a Sinauna language spoken in the Philippines.
		Rusyn is a Slavic language spoken in Ukraine and Slovakia.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WR.HTM (1078 words)

	Languages of the World
		The label language isolate is used for a language that is the only representative of a language family, as Basque or the extinct Sumerian language; the presumptive but unknown sister languages of isolates are dead and unrecorded.
		The languages of seven of the nine extant branches of the Indo-European language family are spoken in Europe.
		Dialects of two languages in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European also are or were spoken in Europe: the Jassic dialect of Ossetic, an Iranian language, formerly spoken in Hungary; and the European dialects of Romany, which was spread by Gypsies throughout Europe and into America.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/Linguistics/lgsworld.html (1332 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All of the AA languages on this map are in the Mon-Khmer Subphylum, which has twelve distinct, scattered stocks -- most with substantial to extreme internal differentiation of families, subfamilies and languages.
		The AN language of the northern mainland is Jarai, a Chamic language of central Vietnam.
		Specifically, the AN Chamic and Malay languages probably arrived across the South China Sea; the TB and TK languages came overland from focal areas to the north-west and north-east respectively; in fact, the latter migration is historically documented.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/AA/Atlas/BRADLEY.TXT (2032 words)

	Cambodian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khmer was the language of instruction in the first cycle, but French was used in the second cycle and thereafter.
		Minority languages include Vietnamese, Cham, several dialects of Chinese, and the languages of the various hill tribes.
		What the language of Funan was, but it was is not at all certain, probably a Mon-Khmer language.
	www.asalec.org /CambodianHistory.html (6571 words)

	Palaungic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Palaungic (or Palaung-Wa) is an internally diverse branch: (like Bahnaric) there are upwards of 30 languages comprising at least three primary divisions, and a great typological diversity is found among them.
		The latter have published a number language descriptions that are marvelous in their phonetic detail, and provide lexicons arranged according to standardised semantic categories, so that even readily usable even to researchers without a good reading command of Chinese.
		It is even possible that at least one Palaungic language, Riang, may even maintain the old implosives as a distinct (although merely voiced) series (as do Katuic languages* Kui, Bru etc., although I do not yet have reliable data to confirm this).
	www.anu.edu.au /~u9907217/languages/AAlecture9.html (1155 words)

	Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Batangjiangyu dongci quzhe xingtaide fenxihua (The analysization of inflexional morphology of verbs in Batang vernacular of Tibetan language).
		Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood.
		Gerard, A. A vocabulary of the Kunawar languages.
	victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/author.html (9935 words)

	Theoretical Linguistics
		Entries on the major languages and language families of the 20th century, focusing chiefly on their history, writing systems, and the numbers one to ten.
		This source lists African languages by name, country, and linguistic group and is an indispensable source for the study of African language and literature.
		The first section is a general presentation of the nature of the languages, and the second consists of a catalog of the languages (arranged by language families).
	www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/linguistics/ling.htm (5437 words)

	Syntax (from Austroasiatic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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.
		From their origins in East-Central Europe, the Slavic languages spread widely and are now spoken throughout most of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe, and the northern portion of Asia.
		The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
	secure.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=74997 (811 words)

	Ethnologue: Myanmar
		Speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages: 28,877,000, 78% of the population; Daic languages: 2,776,900 or 9.6%; Austro-Asiatic languages: 1,934,900 or 6.7%; Miao-Yao languages: 6,000 (1991 J. Matisoff).
		(QIN, ASHO, ASHU, SHOA, SHO, KHYANG, KYANG) [CSH] 10,000 in Myanmar (1991 UBS); 1,422 in Bangladesh (1981 census).916,000 all Chin languages in Myanmar (1993 Johnstone).
		Distinct from Katu, a Mon-Khmer language of Viet Nam, China, and Laos.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Myan.html (3125 words)

	Payap University Linguistics Department
		International conference on Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics, Urbana, Illinois, October 28-31, 1999.
		Presented at the Sino-Tibetan Conference of Language and Linguistics.
		Proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, September 2000, Charlotte, NC.
	lingdept.payap.ac.th /faculty_linguistics.htm (848 words)

	Palaung -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Palaung's language is quite distinct from the Tai speech of the Shan (see Tai), with whom they live closely...
		The members of the Palaungic branch are somewhat controversial but are generally given as Kano' (Danau, or Danaw), Mang, and sometimes Lamet (which are often grouped in the...
		The official language is Burmese, spoken by the people of both the plains and the hills.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058064 (387 words)

	Ethnologue: Thailand
		45,815,000 or 93.5% Daic languages, 1,037,650 or 2% Austro-Asiatic languages, 1,009,500 or 2% Austronesian languages, 533,500 or 1% Tibeto-Burman languages, 100,000 or.2% Miao-Yao languages (1991 J. Matisoff).
		A distinct language from Shwe Palaung and Rumai Palaung.
		The sign language used in the classroom and that by deaf adults outside is different.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Thai.html (3582 words)

	Ethnologue report for Myanmar
		Speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages: 28,877,000 or 78% of the population, Daic languages 2,778,900 or 9.6%, Austro-Asiatic languages 1,934,900 or 6.7%, Hmong-Mien languages 6,000 (1991 J. Matisoff).
		Of those, 108 are living languages and 1 is extinct.
		Pale Palaung and Rumai are closely related, but distinct languages.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Myanmar (1977 words)

	Mon-Khmer - MavicaNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		First there is a discussion of the Austroasiatic language family, to which the Mon-Khmer languages belong, and of Austroastiatic prehistory and the possible Austroastiatic Urheimat or proto-homeland.
		Important language family having three subfamilies: Munda, spoken by several million people in eastern India; Nicobarese, with a few thousand speakers in the Nicobar Islands; and Mon-Khmer, divided into 12 branches with almost 100 languages spoken by some 35 to 45 million people in Southeast Asia.
		Group of languages frequently considered as a subfamily of the Southeast Asian family of languages.
	www.mavicanet.ru /directory/fin/1850.html (260 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Cambodia - LANGUAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Austronesian languages are spread over vast areas of Asia and the Pacific, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to Malaysia.
		Rade and Jarai, close relatives of Cham, are spoken by several thousand members of both ethnic groups in northeastern Cambodia.
		Both languages are written in romanized scripts based on the Vietnamese alphabet.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/cambodia/47.php (842 words)

	ThickRat: Palaungic Languages
		Also called �Palaung-wa, � branch of the Mon-Khmer group of the Austroasiatic languages.
		Palaungic languages are spoken primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and secondarily in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan province in China.
		The members of the Palaungic branch are somewhat controversial but are generally given as Kano' (Danau, or Danaw), Mang, and sometimes Lamet (which are often grouped in the Khmuic
	thickrat.blogspot.com /2004/12/palaungic-languages.html (70 words)

	Ethnologue: China
		A distinct language from Akha and Kado (Kaduo?).
		The classification of Bunu in the Miao branch of Miao-Yao is in dispute.
		Distinct from Katu, a Mon-Khmer language of Viet Nam and Laos.
	nacrp.cic.sfu.ca /nacrp/articles/minority.html (13187 words)

	35. The Negrito of Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mani language is called Tonga' (or Mos) and belongs to the Aslian branch within the Mon-Khmer group of languages within the Austro-Asiatic language family.
		The geographical pattern of many languages in Southeast Asia is thought to represent the remnants of many waves of prehistoric migrations inside and into the area.
		The continued existence of the Andamanese language family, however, does seem to indicate that there once were original Negrito languages differing profoundly from any of the languages now spoken on mainland Asia.
	www.andaman.org /book/chapter36/text36.htm (15246 words)

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		It's not exactly clear whether their language is a dialect of the Wa language or a language of its own.
		The Palaung belong to the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austo-Asiatic language family.
		Most Palaung live in the North-western mountains of the Shan state, but some groups settled in the North-eastern Kyaintong basin, fleeing military conflicts between the junta and the Shan and Wa insurgents.
	www.titpuce.org /compil.htm (18956 words)

	Beijing China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Data accuracy estimate: B. The number of languages listed for China is 202.
		Of those, 201 are living languages and 1 is extinct.
		Speakers in all Qiang languages, including 80,000 in the Qiang nationality and 50,000 in the Tibetan nationality; 1990 J-O Svantesson.) 198,252 people in the Qiang nationality (1990 census).
	www.beijing-china.net /_wsn/page16.html (6218 words)

	SOAS Wa Dictionary Project - Resources
		This table is not meant to be exhaustive, but is primarily a list of print works and audio or video media which are in our collection and which we are drawing data from.
		The new bilingual Chinese-Wa language text LÄi Loux, for use in primary education in the Wa-speaking areas of Yunnan, China.
		English, Wa in the Revised Bible orthography, and Wa in the Chinese orthography (using macrons over vowels to indicate breathy syllables), and also Chinese pinyin transcription with tones, can be handled by the core fonts installed with most of the operating systems since 2000 or so (Windows, Macintosh, Unix/Linux).
	mercury.soas.ac.uk /wadict/wa_resources.html (1142 words)

	Palaungic - MavicaNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.
		2,769,000 or 71% speakers of Daic languages, 1,100,000 or 24.1% Austro-Asiatic languages...
		Speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages: 28,877,000, 78% of the population; Daic languages.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/tur/1857.html (173 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.1415: South-East-Asian lgs, "thou", Inclusive/exclusive pronouns
		The data I need is: - the name(s) of the language as used by its speakers, with gloss if it has any other meaning than the reference to the language itself - the name(s) of the people as they use it in refernce to themselves - standard literature reference on these languages, incl.
		Hello, I'm looking for languages that grammatically distinguish between inclusive and exclusive pronouns (i.e.
		English does not distinguish between the two forms, but I am certain there must be languages that do.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/7/7-1415.html (328 words)

	[No title]
		The major settlements are located in C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1622): the A-Wa mountains which span the Xi-meng Wa Autonomous Region, the C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1625): The Wa language is classified in the Wa-De-ang branch of the C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1632): The Wa language is split into three comparatively large C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1635): Lan-cang as "A-Wa" and the dialect spoken in Ban-nuo and Zhen-kang as C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1636): Wa.
		When the CPB disintegrated the Wa forces C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-14.txt(480): borders as well as supplying the Wa, who have at least 20,000 men C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-14.txt(1239): such as the Pa-o, Palaung, Wa and Lahu groups.
		Dr Damrong Tayanin transcribed some of C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-16.txt(1716): Pa'oh, Palaung, Arakan, Shan, Lahu, and Wa) and four Burmans from the All-Burma Found 'Wa' 4 time(s).
	wadict.soas.ac.uk /download/thai-yunnan-nwsltr/search_for_Wa_results_log.txt (3176 words)

	Languages of Laos
		5,163,000 (1998 UN) including 2,769,000 or 71% speakers of Daic languages, 1,100,000 or 24.1% Austro-Asiatic languages, 175,000 or 4% Miao-Yao languages, 42,500 or 1% Tibeto-Burman languages (1991 J. Matisoff).
		Data accuracy estimate: B, C. The number of languages listed for Laos is 82.
		A large group on both sides of the Mekong in southern Laos, Cambodia.
	www.geocities.com /desvanbhaskar/languages_of_laos.htm (1454 words)

	Cambodia LANGUAGES - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Cambodia LANGUAGES - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		Minority languages include Vietnamese, Cham, several dialects of Chinese, and the languages of the various hill tribes (see Other Ethnic Groups, this ch.).
		The earliest inscription in Khmer, found at Angkor Borei in Takev Province south of Phnom Penh, dates from A.D. 611 (see Prehistory and Early Kingdoms, ch.
	www.photius.com /countries/cambodia/society/cambodia_society_languages.html (529 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.1545: South-East-Asian lang's, Corpus development, Clicks
		In the European languages, clicks are used non-phonemically, as "affective" sounds.
		I guess this is also the case in non-European non-click languages.
		There is one click I'm familiar with in that context, "clacking with the tongue", for want of a better term, that doesn't seem to fit in the above IPA classification.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/7/7-1545.html (451 words)

	Ethnologue report for Thailand
		Population includes 45,815,000 or 93.5% Daic languages, 1,037,650 or 2% Austro-Asiatic languages, 1,009,500 or 2% Austronesian languages, 533,500 or 1% Tibeto-Burman languages, 100,000 or 0.2% Hmong-Mien languages (1991 J. Matisoff).
		The number of languages listed for Thailand is 74.
		Before 1950 Chiangmai and Bangkok had their own separate but related sign languages, and probably other 'urban' areas had their own sign languages, related to present sign languages in parts of Laos and Viet Nam, including Haiphong.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Thailand (1998 words)

	MavicaNET - Palaungic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stats: links: 380586, categories: 31623, languages supported: 30
		Catalog / Culture / Languages / Austro-Asiatic / Palaungic
		Catalog / Culture / Languages / Austro-Asiatic / Mon-Khmer / Northern Mon-Khmer / Palaungic
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/eng/1857.html?sortby=6 (204 words)

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