Austroasiatic

See also: Austro-Asiatic

English

Alternative forms

• Austro-Asiatic

Etymology

Borrowed from German Austroasiatisch, austroasiatisch, coined by Wilhelm Schmidt, from Latin auster (“south”) + German asiatisch (“Asian”).

Adjective

Austroasiatic (comparative more Austroasiatic, superlative most Austroasiatic)

1. Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
2. Australasian.
   • 1987, Bhuban Mohan Das, The Peoples of Assam, page 168:

     This haemoglobin variant emerged in an Austroasiatic people and subsequently diffused throughout southeast Asia and then to other places.

Derived terms

• Proto-Austroasiatic

Translations

Translations

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南亞語系／南亚语系 (zh) (Nányàyǔxì)

• Danish: austroasiatisk
• Dutch: Austroaziatisch
• Finnish: austroaasialainen
• French: austroasiatique (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: austroasiatisch
• Italian: austroasiatico
• Portuguese: austro-asiático
• Russian: австроазиатский (ru) m (avstroaziatskij)
• Swedish: austroasiatisk
• Vietnamese: Nam Á (vi)