Austroasiatic
Adjective
Meaning
Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
Australasian.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPhrases with the word
Examples
Approximately 79% of Cambodians are able to read Khmer. citation Classification main Khmer is a member of the Austroasiatic language family, the autochthonous family in an area that stretches from the Malay Peninsula through Southeast Asia to East India.
Chamic has various Austroasiatic loanwords that cannot be clearly traced to existing Austroasiatic branches (Sidwell 2006).
Austric main A link with the Austroasiatic languages in an ' Austric ' phylum is based mostly on typological evidence.
Another group contained late Stone Age and early Bronze Age from Vietnam—Laos and Malaysia—that was related to modern Austroasiatic populations like the Mlabri and Htin.
By contrast, the relationships between these families within Austroasiatic is debated.
"Can Sino-Tibetan and Austroasiatic help us understand the evolution of Niger-Congo noun classes?"