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Issues in Austroasiatic Classification
Author(s) -
Sidwell Paul
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12038
Subject(s) - dozen , history , genealogy , linguistics , phylum , southeast asia , computer science , ethnology , paleontology , geology , philosophy , mathematics , arithmetic , bacteria
Abstract The Austroasiatic phylum spans South and Southeast Asia, with more than 150 languages over at least a dozen branches. Comparative‐historical work on Austroasiatic has been done for over a century, yet it has proceeded only in fits and starts, such that today we are still not sure how the branches fit together as a family. In this review, the history of efforts to understand the classification of Austroasiatic is examined, and the features that distinguish each of the constituent branches are described.