Austroasiatic
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Austroasiatic is a large and ancient language family of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, including languages such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon.
Aliases (4)
Statements (156)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language family
→
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| age |
ancient
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| alternativeName |
Austro-Asiatic
→
Mon–Khmer → |
| classificationStatus |
well-established as a family
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| comparativeLinguistics |
subject of extensive reconstruction
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| hasHistoricalLanguage |
Middle Khmer
→
Middle Mon → Middle Vietnamese → Old Khmer → Old Mon → Old Vietnamese → Proto-Mon–Khmer → |
| hasLanguage |
Aslian
→
Aslian branch → Aslian languages → Aslian languages of Peninsular Malaysia → Bahnar language → Bahnaric → Bahnaric branch → Bahnaric languages → Bahnaric languages of Vietnam → Ho language → Juang language → Katu language → Katuic → Katuic branch → Katuic languages → Katuic languages of Laos and Vietnam → Kharia language → Khasi → Khasi language → Khasian → Khasian branch → Khasian languages of Meghalaya → Khasic languages → Khmer → Khmer language → Khmeric → Khmeric branch → Khmeric languages → Khmeric languages of Cambodia → Khmu language → Khmuic → Khmuic branch → Khmuic languages → Khmuic languages of Laos → Khmuʼ language → Mon → Mon language → Munda → Munda branch → Munda languages → Munda languages of India → Mundari language → Nicobarese → Nicobarese branch → Nicobarese language → Nicobarese languages → Nicobarese languages of Car Nicobar → Nicobarese languages of Great Nicobar → Nicobarese languages of Katchal → Nicobarese languages of Little Nicobar → Nicobarese languages of Nancowry → Nicobarese languages of Teressa → Palaung language → Palaungic → Palaungic branch → Palaungic languages → Palaungic languages of Myanmar → Pearic → Pearic branch → Pearic languages → Pearic languages of Cambodia → Santali → Santali language → Semai language → Sora language → Temiar language → Vietic → Vietic branch → Vietic languages → Vietic languages of Vietnam → Vietnamese → Vietnamese language → Wa language → Wa language (Austroasiatic) → Waic → Waic branch → Waic languages → Waic languages of Myanmar and China → |
| hasNationalLanguage |
Khmer
→
Vietnamese → |
| hasSubfamily |
Aslian
→
Bahnaric → Katuic → Khasian → Khmeric → Khmuic → Mon–Khmer → Munda → Palaungic → Pearic → Vietic → Waic → |
| influencedBy |
Indo-Aryan languages (areal influence on Munda)
→
Sino-Tibetan languages (areal influence) → Tai–Kadai languages (areal influence) → |
| influences |
lexicon of some Sino-Tibetan languages
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lexicon of some Tai–Kadai languages → substrate in some Mainland Southeast Asian languages → |
| languageStatus |
includes national languages
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| macroFamilyStatus |
controversial
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| majorLanguage |
Khasi
→
Khmer → Mon → Santali → Vietnamese → |
| morphologicalFeature |
infixation
→
prefixation → reduplication → |
| phonologicalFeature |
register contrasts in some branches
→
tonogenesis in Vietic → tonogenesis in some Katuic languages → |
| reconstruction |
Proto-Austroasiatic
→
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| region |
Bangladesh
→
Eastern India → Mainland Southeast Asia → Nicobar Islands → Northeast India → South Asia → Southern China → |
| spokenBy |
Khasi people
→
Khmer people → Mon people → Munda peoples → Nicobarese people → Various indigenous groups in Laos → Various indigenous groups in Myanmar → Various indigenous groups in Northeast India → Various indigenous groups in Peninsular Malaysia → Various indigenous groups in Thailand → Vietnamese people → |
| typology |
monosyllabic tendencies in some branches
→
mostly analytic → |
| wordOrder |
SOV (in many Munda languages)
→
SVO (in many branches) → |
| writingSystem |
Bengali–Assamese script (for some Munda languages)
→
Devanagari (for some Munda languages) → Khmer script (for Khmer) → Khmer-based scripts (historically for Mon) → Lao script (for some Austroasiatic languages in Laos) → Latin script (for Vietnamese) → Myanmar script (for some Austroasiatic languages in Myanmar) → Ol Chiki (for Santali) → Thai script (for some Austroasiatic languages in Thailand) → |
Referenced by (20)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Indians
("Austroasiatic languages")
→
Khmer → Kinh ("Austroasiatic languages") → Kinh people ("Austroasiatic languages") → Mon ("Austroasiatic languages") → Mon-Khmer → Nancowry → Santhali → Vietnamese language ("Austroasiatic languages") → |
languageFamily |
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Nancowry
("Austroasiatic languages")
→
Nicobarese → Nicobarese languages ("Austroasiatic languages") → |
family |
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Austroasiatic
("Austro-Asiatic")
→
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alternativeName |
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Nicobarese languages
("Austroasiatic languages")
→
|
branchOf |
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Assamese people
("Austroasiatic peoples")
→
|
culturalInfluence |
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Nicobarese languages
→
|
geneticClassification |
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Northeast India
("Austroasiatic languages")
→
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hasLanguageFamily |
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Southeast Asia
("Austroasiatic languages")
→
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majorLanguageFamily |
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Mon-Khmer
("Austroasiatic language family")
→
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partOf |
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Nicobarese languages
("Austroasiatic language family")
→
|
subclassOf |