Austroasiatic Languages

The austroasiatic languages are a group of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia and India. Their name comes from the Greek South Asia .

The austroasiatic languages are scattered between India and the Southeast Asia, separated by areas where other types of languages are spoken. It is generally supposed that the austroasiatic languages are the languages of the autochtones of Southeast Asia and the east of India, while the other languages of the area, including/understanding Indo-European Langues, austronésiennes, tai-kadai and sino-Tibetans were brought by posterior migrations. Some linguists tried to connect the austroasiatic languages to the Langues austronésiennes to form the super-group of the austric Langues, but the current trend is to bring closer these last to the languages tai-kadai.

Compared vocabulary

Classification

The linguists distinguish two great groups from austroasiatic languages, the Langues my-Khmer of the Southeast Asia and the Langues munda of the east and of center-is India. One indexed 168 austroasiatic languages, including 147 pertaining to the my-Khmer group and 21 with the munda group.

  • Languages munda

    • Languages munda of north (12 languages)
      • Korku
      • Santali
      • Mundari
      • Bhumij
      • Ho
    • Languages munda of the south (9 languages)
      • Kharia
      • Juang
      • Gutob
      • Remo
      • Sora
      • Juray
      • Gorum
  • Languages my-Khmer
    • Languages my-Khmer of the south
      • Languages " asliennes " (Indigenous S) (19 languages) of Malaysia and the south of the Thailand
      • Languages " môniques"
        • My with the Myanmar
        • Nyahkur in Thailand
      • indigenous Langues Nicobarais be (6 languages) in India
    • Eastern Langues Khmer my-Khmer
      • with the Kampuchea, in Thailand and with the Vietnam
      • pearic Langues (6 languages) in Kampuchea
      • bahnaric Langues (40 languages) in Vietnam, with the Laos and Kampuchea
      • katuic Langues (19 languages) in Laos, in Vietnam and in Thailand
    • Langues my-Khmer of north
      • Langues khasiennes (3 languages) inis India and with the Bangladesh
      • khmuic Langues (13 languages) in Laos and in Thailand.
      • palaungic Languages (21 languages) in Myanmar, the south of the China and in Thailand.
      • Mang in Vietnam.
      • Languages Vietnamese soldier-muong or " viétiques" (10 languages) with the Vietnam and the Laos, to which the Vietnamese belongs, by far the most spoken austroasiatic language, and the Muong, which of it is close. They are the only austroasiatic languages to have developed a tonal system
    • Others
      • Palyu of the south of China

The internal structure of the languages my-Khmer is rather fuzzy.

References

  • "Austroasiatic Languages" in Encyclopedia off Modern Asia , Macmillan 2001-2006

Bonds

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • ethnlogue.com Austro-asiatic

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