Austroasiatic

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, p. 168

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

Translations

Translations

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 南亞語系, 南亚语系 (Nányàyǔxì) Danish: austroasiatisk Dutch: Austroaziatisch Finnish: austroaasialainen French: austroasiatique (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can Italian: austroasiatico Portuguese: austro-asiático Russian: австроазиатский (ru) m (avstroaziatskij) Swedish: austroasiatisk