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Dunn, Michael, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Sylvia Tufvesson, and Neele Becker. "Aslian linguistic prehistory." Diachronica 28, no. 3 (2011): 291–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.28.3.01dun.

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This paper analyzes newly collected lexical data from 26 languages of the Aslian subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family using computational phylogenetic methods. We show the most likely topology of the Aslian family tree, discuss rooting and external relationships to other Austroasiatic languages, and investigate differences in the rates of diversification of different branches. Evidence is given supporting the classification of Jah Hut as a fourth top level subgroup of the family. The phylogenetic positions of known geographic and linguistic outlier languages are clarified, and the rel
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Sun, Jackson T. S. "The synchronic and diachronic phonology of Va." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41, no. 2 (2018): 133–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.18010.sun.

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Abstract Va, an obscure language of Southwestern Yunnan, belongs to the Wa-Lawa cluster under the Waic subgroup of Palaungic in the Austroasiatic language family. This article presents an overview of Va synchronic phonology and an account of its evolution from the Proto-Wa-Lawa sound system reconstructed by Gérard Diffloth. Modern Va phonology is characterized by fully monosyllabic word structure, reduced syllable canon, and a robust three-tone system. Its atypical phonological profile from an Austroasiatic perspective and its tonogenesis may be directly attributed to the sociolinguistic ambie
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ENFIELD, N. J., Gérard DIFFLOTH, N. J. ENFIELD, and Gérard DIFFLOTH. "Phonology and sketch grammar of Kri, a Vietic language of Laos." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 38, no. 1 (2009): v—69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1960602809x00063.

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This article presents a first sketch of Kri, a Vietic (Austroasiatic) language spoken in upland Laos. This previously undescribed language is of special interest not only in so far as it adds to the typological sample of the world's languages, but also in so far as its complex phonological system adds to our understanding of the historical development of Vietic and Austroasiatic, and more generally to the process of tonogenesis. Kri syllables are defined both in terms of segments and segmental slots, as well as in terms of register ('heavy' versus 'light') and what we call 'terminance' (voiced
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Wnuk, Ewelina, and Niclas Burenhult. "Contact and isolation in hunter-gatherer language dynamics." Studies in Language 38, no. 4 (2014): 956–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.4.06wnu.

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Maniq, spoken by 250–300 people in southern Thailand, is an undocumented geographical outlier of the Aslian branch of Austroasiatic. Isolated from other Aslian varieties and exposed only to Southern Thai, this northernmost member of the group has long experienced a contact situation which is unique in the Aslian context. Aslian is otherwise mostly under influence from Malay, and exhibits typological characteristics untypical of other Austroasiatic and Mainland Southeast Asian languages. In this paper we pursue an initial investigation of the contrastive strategies of the Maniq sound system. We
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Haiman, John. "Possible Origins of Infixation in Khmer." Studies in Language 22, no. 3 (1998): 597–617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.22.3.04hai.

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The existence of infixation in Austroasiatic has always been treated as a given: one of such antiquity that it has been proposed as a possible index of genetic affiliation with Austronesian. Nor does the comparative method allow the reconstruction of a typologically more plausible set of prefixes from which the attested infixes could have been derived via metathesis. Yet a plausible mechanism for the infixation process can be suggested on the basis of internal reconstruction, given the following facts about Khmer: 1. A canonical iambic word structure; 2. An ongoing process of initial syllable
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Lee, Wei-Wei, and Mathias Jenny. "Syntactic change in Palaungic." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45, no. 1 (2022): 22–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.21004.lee.

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Abstract The relative constructions in several Palaungic languages (Htanaw, Wa, Lawa, Rumai Palaung, Samlong Palaung, and Rucing Palaung), here shown to be participant nominalizations, display striking mutual similarities, while conspicuously diverging from the dominant relativization strategy within the Austroasiatic family. Instead of the common n [rel (s) v (o)] pattern, the Palaungic constructions examined exhibit the following structural features: (a) rel invariably precedes the verb complex directly; (b) internal constituent order is vs(o), with the exception of Htanaw. An unusual functi
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Blevins, Juliette, and Daniel Kaufman. "Lexical Evidence in Austronesian for an Austroasiatic presence in Borneo." Oceanic Linguistics 62, no. 2 (2023): 366–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2023.a913565.

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Abstract: Divergence and diversity at the level of phonology and lexicon in many of the Austronesian languages of Borneo are widely recognized and well studied. However, the source of this divergence is debated. In this paper, lexical items in the languages of Borneo which lack secure Austronesian etymologies are the object of study. Some of these words show potential semantic and phonological matches with Austroasiatic forms, suggesting a possible early period of in situ contact between Austronesian speakers and speakers of Mon-Khmer languages on the island of Borneo.
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van Driem, George. "East Asian Ethnolinguistic Phylogeography." Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2013): 135–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405478x-90000111.

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A polyphyletic understanding of Asian linguistic diversity was first propagated in 1823. Since 1901, various scholars have proposed larger linguistic phyla uniting two or more recognised Asian language families. The most recent proposal in this tradition, Starosta’s 2001 East Asian phylum, comprising the Trans-Himalayan, Hmong-Mien, Austroasiatic, Austronesian and Kradai language families, is reassessed in light of linguistic and non-linguistic evidence. Ethnolinguistically informed inferences based on Asian Y chromosomal phylogeography lead to a reconstruction of various episodes of ethnoling
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Daladier, Anne. "Kinship and Spirit Terms Renewed as Classifiers of “Animate” Nouns and Their Reduced Combining Forms in Austroasiatic." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 28, no. 2 (2002): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i2.1035.

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Bradley, David. "Ancient Connections of Sinitic." Languages 8, no. 3 (2023): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8030176.

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Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined. Using the standard techniques of comparative linguistics, a remote linkage between the Sino-Tibetan languages, including Sinitic, the Yeniseian languages of Siberia, and the Na-Dene languages of northwest North America is demonstrated. This includes cognate core lexicon showing regular sound correspondences, morphological similarities of form and function,
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Yu, Jian, Xiaohua Deng, Zhiquan Fan, Wenjiao Yang, Zhi Ji, and Chuan-Chao Wang. "The Origin and Dispersal of Austroasiatic Languages from the Perspectives of Linguistics, Archeology, and Genetics." Human Biology 94, no. 3 (2022): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hub.2022.a934505.

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abstract: The Austroasiatic (AA) languages comprise a large language family in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and South Asia. Theoretical, methodological, and material constraints have limited research on the origin and dispersal of AA-speaking populations within historical-comparative linguistics. With the deepening of archaeological and genetic studies, interdisciplinary collaboration has become key to solving this problem. We review the latest hypotheses in linguistics, archaeology, and molecular anthropology and propose insights on the origin and dispersal of AA languages. The ancestors of
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TRẦN, Thị Hồng Hạnh. "A further study of kinship terms for 'mother' in Vietnamese." Studies in Geolinguistics 3 (October 13, 2023): 137–45. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8437092.

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This paper offers a comprehensive look at kinship terms in Vietnamese, highlighting the specific case of kinship terms for ‘mother.’ The terms for ‘mother’ are abundant in the Vietnamese kinship term system and include terms that are used nationwide as well as those that have been preserved in dialects. Among them are some cases which seem to have sufficient historical phonetic evidence to argue about their origin. Meanwhile, the origin of other terms for ‘mother’ is still under debate. Based on historical linguistic evidence supported by the interpretation
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Sun, Jackson T. S. "Synchronic and diachronic phonology of Lavïa." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 21, no. 2 (2020): 285–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00062.sun.

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Abstract Lavïa, spoken in a belt across both sides of the Yunnan-Myanmar border, is an under-researched Wa language falling under the Waic subgroup of Palaungic in the Austroasiatic language family. This study investigates the sound system of Lavïa and traces its development from an ancestral Proto-Wa-Lawa phonological system. Modern Lavïa phonology is characterized by well-preserved sesquisyllablic structure, rich inventories of consonant and vocalic clusters, and lack of phonemic tone or phonation. Diachronically, Lavïa shows widely attested Waic sound changes as well as certain distinctive
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Kruspe, Nicole, and John Hajek. "Mah Meri." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39, no. 2 (2009): 241–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100309003946.

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Mah Meri (ãʔ məri) belongs to the Aslian branch of Mon-Khmer within the Austroasiatic family. It is classified as a Southern Aslian language, along with Semelai, Semoq Beri and Temoq (Benjamin 1976). Mah Meri is spoken by the Mah Meri ethnic group in scattered settlements along the south-west coast of the Malay peninsula stretching from Port Kelang to Bukit Bangkong, Sepang in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The island of Sumatra lies a short distance away across the Malacca Strait. The Mah Meri language, which may have as many as 2,185 speakers, has no written tradition and is highly endange
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Kirby, James P. "Vietnamese (Hanoi Vietnamese)." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41, no. 3 (2011): 381–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100311000181.

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Vietnamese, the official language of Vietnam, is spoken natively by over seventy-five million people in Vietnam and greater Southeast Asia as well as by some two million overseas, predominantly in France, Australia, and the United States. The genetic affiliation of Vietnamese has been at times the subject of considerable debate (Diffloth 1992). Scholars such as Tabard (1838) maintained a relation to Chinese, while Maspero (1912), despite noting similarities to Mon-Khmer, argued for an affiliation with Tai. However, at least since the work of Haudricourt (1953), most scholars now agree that Vie
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Bhat, Raj Nath. "Language Culture and History Towards Building a Khmer Narrative." Journal on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2, no. 1 (2020): 22–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/jala.v2-i1-a3.

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Genetic and geological studies reveal that following the melting of snows 22,000 years ago, the post Ice-age Sundaland peoples’ migrations as well as other peoples’ migrations spread the ancestors of the two distinct ethnic groups Austronesian and Austroasiatic to various East and South–East Asian countries. Some of the Austroasiatic groups must have migrated to Northeast India at a later date, and whose descendants are today’s Munda-speaking people of Northeast, East and Southcentral India. Language is the store-house of one’s ancestral knowledge, the community’s history, its skills, customs,
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van Dam, Kellen Parker. "Revisiting “Eye of the day”." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46, no. 2 (2023): 235–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.22011.van.

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Abstract A particular lexical construction for “sun” composed of morphemes for “eye” and either “day” or “sky” has been widely reported for Austronesian languages. Urban (2010) made the case for this phenomenon as an areal feature originating in Austronesian, with attestation in Austroasiatic and Tai-Kadai varieties, but absent in Sino-Tibetan. A follow-up (Blust 2011) argued for the possibility of independent genesis across the languages, while reiterating the absence of the feature in Sino-Tibetan. This paper presents a large scale survey of Tibeto-Burman language varieties. Data from this r
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Michaud, Alexis, Guillaume Jacques, and Robert L. Rankin. "Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel." Diachronica 29, no. 2 (2012): 201–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.29.2.04mic.

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Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), and from the vowel to the preceding consonant in Siouan. However, an examination of the conditions on these changes brings out an asymmetry. In most ca
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Chang, Jung-Im. "The origin and the development of 焉 yān in Old Chinese". Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 23, № 4 (2022): 601–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00117.cha.

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Abstract The Old Chinese function word 焉 yān is frequently interpreted as a fusion of [於 (‘at/on/in’) + 此 (near demonstrative pronoun)] in terms of its meaning. Ever since Kennedy (1940a, b; 1953) argued that 焉 is a fusion of [於 + *an (third-person pronoun)], it has been controversial as to exactly which third-person pronoun/demonstrative pronoun *an corresponds to in Old Chinese. There is no third-person pronoun/demonstrative pronoun that is appropriate for this reconstruction. This paper illustrates how 焉 *Ɂan is a fusion of 於 *Ɂa and *niɁ; *nih or *nɔɁ; *nɔh, which means ‘this’ in Proto-Aus
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Wnuk, Ewelina, and Yuma Ito. "The heart’s downward path to happiness: cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect." Cognitive Linguistics 32, no. 2 (2021): 195–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0068.

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Abstract Spatial metaphors of affect display remarkable consistencies across languages in mapping sensorimotor experiences onto emotional states, reflecting a great degree of similarity in how our bodies register affect. At the same time, however, affect is complex and there is more than a single possible mapping from vertical spatial concepts to affective states. Here we consider a previously unreported case of spatial metaphors mapping down onto desirable, and up undesirable emotional experiences in Mlabri, an Austroasiatic language of Thailand and Laos, making a novel contribution to the st
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Chappell, Hilary, and Shanshan Lü. "A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia." Linguistics 60, no. 1 (2021): 1–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0219.

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Abstract This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative, existential and possessive verbs and the constructions they form. As a consequence, its second objective is to model the diachronic change underlying four language types identified on this basis from the data. We argue that there are three grammaticalization pathways which motivate the four synchronic patterns: Type III languages are disti
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Chappell, Hilary, and Denis Creissels. "Topicality and the typology of predicative possession." Linguistic Typology 23, no. 3 (2019): 467–532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0016.

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Abstract Recent accounts on the typology of predicative possession, including those by Stassen, recognise a Topic Possessive type with the possessee coded like the figure in an existential predication, and the possessor coded as a topic that is not subcategorised by the predicate and is not related to any syntactic position in the comment, literally: As for Possessor, there is Possessee. The Asian region is explicitly singled out as being a Topic Possessive area. On the basis of a sample of 71 languages from the four main language families of continental East and Southeast Asia – Sino-Tibetan,
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Badenoch, Nathan. "Speaking Like a Ghost: Registers of Intimacy and Incompatibility in the Forests of Northern Laos." Journal of the Siam Society 110, no. 1 (2022): 103–50. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15477483.

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The Ksingmul people of the northern Laos-Vietnam border area have been known within local Tai social systems as Puak, a derogatory term that evokes images of forest-eating termites. Occupying the lowest rung in the Tai social hierarchy, what is known of the Ksingmul has been dominated by the idea of Tai-ization — a process of cultural loss and assimilation. But overt markers of physical culture and economic status mask the persistence of traditional beliefs, moral entanglements and alternative historical perspectives that can be accessed only through th
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Alves, Mark. "Linguistic Research on the Origins of the Vietnamese Language: An Overview." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1, no. 1-2 (2006): 104–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.104.

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While the majority of linguistic researchers both inside and outside Vietnam consider the Vietnamese language a Mon-Khmer, Austroasiatic language, some counterarguments and general confusion continue to exist in the public domain. This article looks at four hypotheses regarding the linguistic origins of Vietnamese, hypotheses that place Vietnamese variously within the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Chinese, or Tai-Kadai language families. Based on linguistic methodology and plausible scenarios of interethnic contact, the commonly held position——Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language——remains th
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Bauer, Christian. "Robert Parkin: A guide to Austroasiatic speakers and their languages. (Oceanic Linguistics, Special Publication, no. 23.) ix, 198, [xv] pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. $21." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 56, no. 1 (1993): 193–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00002366.

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Alves, Mark. "An Updated Overview of the Austroasiatic Components of Vietnamese." Languages 9, no. 12 (2024): 377. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120377.

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This article presents an updated view of the language history of Vietnamese from its native Austroasiatic roots, including key historical phonological, morphological, and syntactic features and developments; a characterization of its Austroasiatic etyma; and the context of this information in Vietnamese linguistic ethnohistory. It is now possible to make better supported claims and more precise characterizations due to improved understanding of the history of Austroasiatic and Vietic and their reconstructions, the nature and effect of language contact with Chinese, and the process of typologic
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ALA editorial board. "Foreword." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 10, no. 1 (2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.10.1.5-6.

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Any scientific discipline undoubtedly encounters different challenges in their development over time. However, with the rise of modern technologies, such challenges expanded to new dimensions.
 In linguistics, corpus studies have already proven their advantages, and many researchers and other users enjoy the richness of different corpora, spreading enthusiasm and courage to treat linguistics interdisciplinarily. At the same time, minority languages and poorly studied languages are also gaining researchers' attention. Modern technologies further motivated different translation tools, which
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Diffloth, Gérard, James R. Chamberlain, and Nathan Badenoch. "Notation and phonology of the Tri language in Vilabouly*." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 47, no. 1 (2024): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.00015.cha.

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Abstract Gérard Diffloth (1937–2023) was a leading authority on Austroasiatic languages, with a wide range of linguistic interests ranging from historical reconstruction to expressives, and much more. He was a tireless fieldworker who firmly believed that research into the linguistic history of Austroasiatic need be grounded in long-term fieldwork with native speakers in their daily speech environment. In this paper we introduce an unpublished manuscript on the phonology of the Tri language spoken in Vilabouly District, Savannakhet Province in southern Laos. We frame this with a brief introdu
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Alves, Mark J. "The Ðông Sơn Speech Community: Evidence for Vietic." Crossroads 19, no. 2 (2022): 138–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26662523-bja10002.

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Abstract This article reviews multiple lines of data in an attempt to determine the ethnolinguistic situation of the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam in the Ðông Sơn period (c. 600 BCE–200 CE) prior to the establishment of a Chinese administration there circa 200 BCE. A variety of possible scenarios are considered in light of linguistic, ethnological, archaeological, archaeogenetic, and historical textual data. Some scenarios must be excluded as they lack supporting evidence, while the remaining few are weighed against each other and ranked. At this point, the scenario with the most support
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Lipson, Mark, Olivia Cheronet, Swapan Mallick, et al. "Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory." Science 361, no. 6397 (2018): 92–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3188.

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Southeast Asia is home to rich human genetic and linguistic diversity, but the details of past population movements in the region are not well known. Here, we report genome-wide ancient DNA data from 18 Southeast Asian individuals spanning from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age (4100 to 1700 years ago). Early farmers from Man Bac in Vietnam exhibit a mixture of East Asian (southern Chinese agriculturalist) and deeply diverged eastern Eurasian (hunter-gatherer) ancestry characteristic of Austroasiatic speakers, with similar ancestry as far south as Indonesia providing evidence for an ex
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Bauer, Christian. "Karen Lee Adams: Systems of numeral classification in the Mon-Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic. (Pacific Linguistics, Series B, no. 101) xiii, 219 pp. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1989 [pub.1990]." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 55, no. 2 (1992): 374–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00005188.

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Badenoch, Nathan, Madhu Purti, and Nishaant Choksi. "Expressives as Moral Propositions in Mundari." Indian Linguistics 80, no. 1-2 (2019): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15482363.

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This paper discusses expressives in the Mundari language spoken in Jharkhand as moral propositions. Expressives have traditionally been peripheral to the study of language, but recently this class of words has started to receive more attention. Moving from a narrow conception of onomatopoeia, linguists have begun to discuss the idea of depictive language, in which sensory perception is communicated in vivid terms. The data in this paper are presented as an ethno-linguistic exploration of how expressives can have moral or ethical connotations, in addition to, or in
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Koshy, Anish. "Re-evaluating Affixes and Clitics in Munda Multi-verb Constructions." Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics 5, no. 3 (2024): 62–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.54392/ijll2436.

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Languages from the same genetic lineage often exhibit differences in certain parameters, but significant variation in their morphological typology is uncommon. Austroasiatic languages present a notable paradox, where Munda languages are categorized as polysynthetic, while Mon-Khmer languages are considered isolating. This contrast within the same linguistic family, with both sub-branches occupying opposite ends of the synthesis continuum, is particularly intriguing. This paper aims to explore whether the morphological disparity between Munda and Mon-Khmer languages can be reconciled by examini
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Nathan, Badenoch, Toshiki Osada, Madhu Purti, and Masayuki Onishi. "Expressive Lexicography: Creating a Dictionary of Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area." Indian Linguistics 82, no. 1-2 (2021): 25–40. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15477442.

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In this paper we reflect upon the process of producing a dictionary of expressives in Mundari, an Austroasiatic language spoken in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, in eastern India, by approximately 1,530,000 people. We explore some methodological challenges faced in the study of expressives, as well as approaches taken in this long-term study of Mundari, including elicitation, discussion, performance, text analysis and participant observation. The study of expressives is gaining momentum in the region, yet efforts to create dictionaries of this important class of words are still few. We arg
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Subba, Nawa Raj. "Exploring the Kirat Language Family From Ancient Echoes to Modern Voices." International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology ISSN No:-2456-2165 9, no. 1 (2025): 206–15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15094077.

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Abstract:- The review paper examines the linguistic and cultural connections within the Kirat community, highlighting the possible influence of past and present conflicts on their sense of self. The analysis examines whether Kirat languages exhibit a stronger affinity with the Tibeto-Burman family or the Austro-Asiatic/Munda family. Kirat and Tibeto-Burman languages share comparable variations in verb morphology, characterized by an agglutinative framework and the use of prefixes and suffixes to indicate tense-aspect changes. Furthermore, the Kirat and Tibeto-Burman languages commonly employ c
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Ardila, Alfredo. "A cross-linguistic comparison of category verbal fluency test (ANIMALS): a systematic review." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 35, no. 2 (2019): 213–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acz060.

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Abstract Background Cross-linguistic information about performance in neuropsychological verbal tests is extremely scarce. It has been suggested that verbal fluency test using animal fluency test is one of the few tests fulfilling the fundamental criteria desirable in a robust neuropsychological test. Objective To compare and establish cross-linguistic information about performance in the animal fluency test. Results In an extensive search, it was found that norms for the semantic fluency test using the category ANIMALS are available in 15 different languages. These languages represent a relat
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Dr., Nawa Raj Subba. "Exploring the Kirat Language Family From Ancient Echoes to Modern Voices." Exploring the Kirat Language Family From Ancient Echoes to Modern Voices 9, no. 1 (2024): 10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10518049.

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The review paper examines the linguistic and cultural connections within the Kirat community, highlighting the possible influence of past and present conflicts on their sense of self. The analysis examines whether Kirat languages exhibit a stronger affinity with the Tibeto-Burman family or the Austro-Asiatic/Munda family. Kirat and Tibeto-Burman languages share comparable variations in verb morphology, characterized by an agglutinative framework and the use of prefixes and suffixes to indicate tense-aspect changes. Furthermore, the Kirat and Tibeto-Burman languages commonly employ classifiers
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Kolipakam, Vishnupriya, Fiona M. Jordan, Michael Dunn, et al. "A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family." Royal Society Open Science 5, no. 3 (2018): 171504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171504.

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The Dravidian language family consists of about 80 varieties (Hammarström H. 2016 Glottolog 2.7 ) spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries (Steever SB. 1998 In The Dravidian languages (ed. SB Steever), pp. 1–39: 1). Neither the geographical origin of the Dravidian language homeland nor its exact dispersal through time are known. The history of these languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, because despite their current restricted range, these languages played a significant role in influencing other language groups including I
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Rischel, Jørgen. "What language do "the spirits of the yellow leaves" speak?: A case of conflicting lexical and phonological evidence." Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics University of Copenhagen 23 (January 1, 1989): 87–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aripuc.v23i.131903.

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This paper (which in part summarizes two papers to appear in Acta Orientalia but which presents separate information as well) deals with some issues raised by descriptive and comparative linguistic work in northern Thailand. The putative Austroasiatic languages "Yumbri" and "Mrabri" (more correctly: Mlabri) have been assigned to "Khmuic" within the Mon-Khmer languages, but the relationship between these two idioms has been a controversial issue. On the basis of recent fieldwork all existing data on "Yumbri" and "Mrabri" can be shown to reflect one and the same language Mlabri in spite of wide
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SCHIERING, RENÉ, BALTHASAR BICKEL, and KRISTINE A. HILDEBRANDT. "The prosodic word is not universal, but emergent." Journal of Linguistics 46, no. 3 (2010): 657–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226710000216.

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In Prosodic Phonology, domains for the application of phonological patterns are commonly modeled as a Prosodic Hierarchy. The theory predicts, among other things, that (i) prosodic domains cluster on a single universal set of domains (‘Clustering’), and (ii) no level of prosodic structure is skipped in the building of prosodic structure unless this is required by independently motivated higher ranking principles or constraints (‘Strict Succession’). In this paper, we demonstrate that if, as is standardly done, evidence is limited to lexically general phonological processes, some languages syst
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Badenoch, Nathan, and Norihiko Hayashi. "Continuity and Change in the Duodenary Cycle: Language Contact in the Laos-China Border Area." Journal of Research Institute Kobe City University of Foreign Studies 63 (June 7, 2022): 127–42. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15484890.

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The Duodenary Cycle is a method of reckoning time that is used widely in mainland Southeast Asia. In the upland areas, ethnic groups that have historically been in contact with speakers of Chinese and Tai languages commonly use a 12-day cycle for determining what livelihood and ritual activities should be done on which days. The terminology used in these cycles shows influence from different cultures and languages, but there has also been asignificant degree of internally motivated innovation. In this paper we explore data from several Tibeto-Burman languages spok
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Higham, C. F. W., and M. J. Alves. "The Southeast Asian prehistoric house: a correlation between archaeology and linguistics." Asian Archaeology, April 29, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41826-025-00107-0.

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Abstract Austroasiatic languages are spoken from Southeast Asia to central India, and their divergences evidence a considerable passage of time since speakers of the proto language spread south from the lower Yangtze region. Proto-Austroasiatic etyma for the house and its component parts have raised the possibility of their validation through matching archaeological data. It is found that there is a correlation between linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence that involved the expansion of Neolithic rice farmers who brought with them a cultural package of agriculture, pottery, domestica
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Yager, Joanne, and Niclas Burenhult. "Jedek: A newly discovered Aslian variety of Malaysia." Linguistic Typology 21, no. 3 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2017-0012.

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AbstractJedek is a previously unrecognized variety of the Northern Aslian subgroup of the Aslian branch of the Austroasiatic language family. It is spoken by about 280 individuals in the resettlement area of Sungai Rual, near Jeli in Kelantan state, Peninsular Malaysia. The community originally consisted of several bands of foragers along the middle reaches of the Pergau river. Jedek’s distinct status first became known during a linguistic survey carried out in the DOBES project
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Yu, Jian, Xiaohua Deng, Zhiquan Fan, Wenjiao Yang, Zhi Ji, and Chuan-Chao Wang. "The Origin and Dispersal of Austroasiatic Languages from the Perspectives of Linguistics, Archeology, and Genetics." Human Biology, April 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hub.2017.a925564.

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The Austroasiatic (AA) languages comprise a large language family in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and South Asia. Theoretical, methodological, and material constraints have limited research on the origin and dispersal of AA-speaking populations within historical-comparative linguistics. With the deepening of archaeological and genetic studies, interdisciplinary collaboration has become key to solving this problem. We review the latest hypotheses in linguistics, archaeology, and molecular anthropology and propose insights on the origin and dispersal of AA languages. The ancestors of the AA-sp
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Kruspe, Nicole, and Asifa Majid. "The linguistics of odour in Semaq Beri and Semelai, two Austroasiatic languages of the Malay Peninsula." Studies in Language, November 28, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.22004.kru.

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Abstract There is a long history presuming smell is not expressible in language, but numerous studies in recent years challenge this presupposition. Large smell lexica have been reported around the world thereby showing high lexical codability in this domain. Psycholinguistic studies likewise find smell can be described with relatively high agreement, demonstrating high efficient codability. Often the two go hand-in-hand: languages with high lexical codability also display high efficient codability. This study compares two Austroasiatic (Aslian) languages – Semaq Beri and Semelai – previously
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Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit T. "The expanding influence of Thai and its effects on cue redistribution in Kuy." Linguistics Vanguard, April 28, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0042.

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Abstract The effect of ability in a tonal language on shifting cue weights in a non-tonal language is explored through a production and perception experiment carried out with speakers of Kuy (Katuic, Austroasiatic) in Ban Khi Nak, Sisaket Province, in Northeast Thailand. Specifically, the realization of a modal-breathy voice quality contrast is analyzed through observing the effects of language ability and usage-related sociolinguistic factors. The results show increased usage of F0 and CPP cues in production and of F0 cues in perception of the voice quality contrast with greater ability and u
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Szeto, Pui Yiu, and Chingduang Yurayong. "Sinitic as a typological sandwich: revisiting the notions of Altaicization and Taicization." Linguistic Typology, February 18, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-2074.

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Abstract Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single “universal Chinese grammar”. Yet, the underlying cause of their grammatical variation is still a matter for debate. This paper focuses on typological variation across Sinitic varieties. Through comparing the typological profiles of various Sinitic languages with those of their Altaic and Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) neighbors, we discuss to what extent the variation within the Sinitic branch can be attributed to
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WNUK, EWELINA. "Ways of looking: Lexicalizing visual paths in verbs." Journal of Linguistics, February 8, 2021, 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226721000086.

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The packaging of meaning in verbs varies widely across languages since verbs are free to encode different aspects of an event. At the same time, languages tend to display recurrent preferences in lexicalization, e.g. verb-framing vs. satellite-framing in motion. It has been noted, however, that the lexicalization patterns in motion are not carried over to the domain of vision, since gaze trajectory (‘visual path’) is coded outside the main verb even in verb-framed languages. This ‘typological split’ (Matsumoto 2001), however, is not universal. This article contains the first extensive report o
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Tagore, Debashree, Partha P. Majumder, Anupam Chatterjee, and Analabha Basu. "Multiple migrations from East Asia led to linguistic transformation in NorthEast India and mainland Southeast Asia." Frontiers in Genetics 13 (October 11, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1023870.

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NorthEast India, with its unique geographic location in the midst of the Himalayas and Bay of Bengal, has served as a passage for the movement of modern humans across the Indian subcontinent and East/Southeast Asia. In this study we look into the population genetics of a unique population called the Khasi, speaking a language (also known as the Khasi language) belonging to the Austroasiatic language family and residing amidst the Tibeto-Burman speakers as an isolated population. The Khasi language belongs to one of the three major broad classifications or phyla of the Austroasiatic language an
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Kujur, Anup Kumar. "TOTEMS OF THE TRIBES OF CHOTA NAGPUR AN ETHNOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS." Towards Excellence, September 30, 2022, 256–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.37867/te140326.

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The paper intends to highlight the relationship between the language of major tribes of Chota Nagpur plateau and their cultural identity through the analysis of totems. Mũṇḍa, Ho, Khaṛia, and Kũṛux are the major tribes of the Austroasiatic and the Dravidian groups. The classification of totems is based on the names of animals, birds, fish, aquatic creatures, snakes, ants, trees and fruits, fauna and flora, etc., which are associated with social and spiritual suppositions. The importance of nature in the lives of these tribes is manifested through their treatment to the objects of nature. Li
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