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Austroasiatic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɔstɹoʊˌeɪʒiˈætɪk/ (General-American)
  • /ˌɔːstɹəʊˌeɪʒiˈætɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
  2. Australasian.
    • This haemoglobin variant emerged in an Austroasiatic people and subsequently diffused throughout southeast Asia and then to other places. 1987, Bhuban Mohan Das, The Peoples of Assam, page 168:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most Austroasiatic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more Austroasiatic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
Austro-Asiatic alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

Austroasiaticist · Proto-Austroasiatic

Translations (11)

da austroasiatisk (Translations) · vi Nam Á (Translations) · cmn 南亞語系 /南亚语系 (Translations) · sv austroasiatisk (Translations) · pt austro-asiático (Translations) · ru австроазиатский (Translations) · fr austroasiatique (Translations) · de austroasiatisch (Translations) · nl Austroaziatisch (Translations) · fi austroaasialainen (Translations) · it austroasiatico (Translations)