Hypothetical parent family of the Austroasiatic and Austronesian languages
Austric
(proposed)
Geographic distribution
Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South Asia, East Asia, Madagascar
Linguistic classification
Proposed language family
Subdivisions
Austroasiatic
Austronesian
(Kra–Dai – sometimes included)
(Hmong–Mien – sometimes included)
Glottolog
None
The distribution of Austric languages
Austroasiatic
Austronesian
Kra-Dai
Hmong-Mien
The Austric languages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as Kra–Dai and Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. A genetic relationship between these language families is seen as plausible by some scholars, but remains unproven.[1][2]
Additionally, Hmong–Mien languages are included by some linguists, and even Japanese was speculated to be Austric in an early version of the hypothesis by Paul K. Benedict.[3]
The Austriclanguages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands...
controversial Austric hypothesis, which also includes the Austronesian languages, and in some proposals also the Kra–Dai languages and the Hmong–Mien languages. Several...
Borean and Austric have an Austric-Borean common ancestor or if Austric is not closer to Borean than to other major language super-phyla) Austro-Tai Austronesian...
for lexical evidence of relationship among all of the languages typically included in Austric as well as Japanese–Korean and Sino-Tibetan. East Asian...
Benedict who added the Japonic languages to the proposal as well. A link with the Austroasiatic languages in an 'Austric' phylum is based mostly on typological...
languages have been used as evidence for the Austric hypothesis (Reid 1994). From north to south, the Nicobaric languages are: Car: Car (Pū) Chaura–Teressa: Chaura...
Austronesian languages Father Tongue hypothesis Classification of Southeast Asian languages Sino-Austronesian languagesAustriclanguages Austro-Tai languages Mainland...
classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an independent...
241–262. 2009. (with Václav Blažek) Ainu and Austric: Evidence of Genetic Relationship. Journal of Language Relationship 2: 1-24. 2010. “Dene–Yeniseian”...
and Na-Dené form a single, higher-order language family. According to Starostin, the Dené–Caucasian and Austric macrofamilies, together with the Nostratic...
The Ainu languages (/ˈaɪnuː/ EYE-noo), sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken...
Austroasiatic and Austronesian languages may have originally come from a larger common language family, the Austriclanguages. The language may have been spoken...
three languages viz. (1) Sanskrit as the official language and the language of the learned few, (2) Non-Aryan tribal languages of the Austric and Tibeto-Burman...
access prehistorical languages through series of reconstructions of proto-languages. Saussure's solution to the problem of language evolution involves dividing...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...
Ilia Peiros, a long-range comparative linguist known for his work on Austriclanguages Stephan of Perm, 14th century missionary, converted Komi Permyaks...
linguistic area, Chinese varieties and languages of southeast Asia share many areal features, tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone...
Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, including A Grammar of the Ainu Language by John Batchelor "The 'Greater Austric' hypothesis" by John Bengtson (undated) Ainu for Beginners...
also included other language families like Hmong-Mien and even Japanese-Ryukyuan into the larger Austric hypothesis. While the Austric hypothesis remains...
ones such as Austric, Dené–Caucasian, Eurasiatic, Nostratic or Ural-Altaic. Language family List of language families List of proposed language families Father...