Austro-asiatic (Noun)
Meaning
A family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Austro-Asiatic languages are spoken in southern and southeastern Asia, encompassing a vast geographic range through India, Southeast Asia, and parts of China.
- Researchers have found that the speakers of the Austro-Asiatic languages migrated to their current locations from the Yangtze River Delta around 4,000 years ago.
- Bengali is not an Austro-Asiatic language, but rather an Indo-Aryan language, indicating a distinction between the language families within the Indian subcontinent.
- The Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages is primarily spoken in the eastern and central parts of India.
- Comparative linguistics has shed light on the shared grammatical and phonological features that unite the Austro-Asiatic languages.