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AUSTRO-ASIATIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
Synonyms:
Austro-Asiatic; Austro-Asiatic language; Munda-Mon-Khmer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Austro-Asiatic" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Austro-Asiatic"):
Munda (a family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India)
Mon-Khmer (a branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages)
