Austroasiatic

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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.

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