The Austroasiatic family, the principal linguistic substrate of mainland Southeast Asian languages, exists today as a patchwork of more than a hundred languages spread across an area that ranges from central India to Vietnam and from Yunnan in China to...

Language group of South and South-East Asia with approx. 150 languages and 56 million speakers. The most important branches are the Munda and Mon-Khmer languages. Schmidt (1906) was the first to suggest combining the Austroasian languages with the...

Language group in South-East Asia with approx. 140 languages belonging to the Austro-Asiatic language family; the most important languages are Vietnamese (about 50 million speakers) and Khmer (Cambodian, about 7 million speakers). Some have a long...

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The Austro-Asiatic languages are a large language family of Southeast Asia, and also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The name comes from the Latin word for "south" and the Greek name of Asia, hence "South Asia". Among these languages, only...

Edited by BARBARA C. LUST, KASHI WALI, JAMES W. GAIR, and K. V. SUBBARAO. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, vol. 22. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 2000. Pp. xiv + 904. DM. 396. This work grows out of a decade-long project, carried out...

Philologos Forward 08-26-1994 ON LANGUAGE: Israeli Dogs Say 'Woof, Woof'. BY PHILOLOGOS The Hebrew language in modern Palestine/Israel had to fight many battles with other languages before -- seemingly against all linguistic odds -- it was revived as the daily speech...