Austro-Asiatic language

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Noun1.Austro-Asiatic language - a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
Austro-Asiatic, Munda-Mon-Khmer
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Munda - a family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India
Mon-Khmer - a branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages
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The A'chik dialects belong to the Bodo linguistic family of Tibeto-Burman languages while the Khasi dialect is an offshoot of the Mon-Khmer linguistic group of the Austro-Asiatic language family.
Introduction
As part of this project, it was decided to prepare a volume of surveys, all adhering to a predetermined common format, each concerning anaphora in a selected Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, or Austro-Asiatic language. The surveys were to be written in such a way as to facilitate comparison of anaphoric phenomena both within and across the language families of South Asia.
Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages: a Principled Typology
The eastern zone comprises of the eastern and northeastern regions where the Austro-Asiatic languages are spoken.
Sociocultural Stratification of India
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