Austroasiatic
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See also: Austro-Asiatic
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Austroasiatisch, austroasiatisch, coined by Wilhelm Schmidt, from Latin auster (“south”) + German asiatisch (“Asian”).
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Austroasiatic (comparative more Austroasiatic, superlative most Austroasiatic)
- Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
- 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.
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