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Southeast Asian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...include three distinct language families of the region...Malayo-Polynesian languages , Sino-Tibetan...Southeast Asian (or Austroasiatic) languages into...a Tai (or Thai) language (see Sino-Tibetan languages ), and still others as a language unrelated to any...Studies in ...
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Malayo-Polynesian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Western Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by over 200 million...and include Malagasy, the language of 13 million people on...dialects and, in time, languages evolved from the ancestor language, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian...and Southeast Asian (or Austroasiatic) languages form a ...
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Nepali
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...twenty-six distinct languages spoken in Nepal that...Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic language families. Nepali...c. The Nepali Language is also known historically...Nepali as a second Language in administrative...speak Tibeto-Burman languages as their native ...
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Kol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...better known as the Mundari or Austroasiatic Language Family. The Kol...longer use their ancient language and have adopted Hindi and...well. The speakers of this language (as of 1961) number only...percent) know the Oriya language and 2,330 persons (22.69 percent) speak other ...
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Khmer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...ethnic population (and the language) of Cambodia. The term...Khmer Islam, although their language and religion are distinct...Khmer," although their languages and cultures differ from...linguists place within a larger Austroasiatic Language Stock. It is related to...
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Kmhmu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Canada. In the Kmhmu language, "Kmhmu'" means...or "Xa" (from Tai languages), meaning "slave...dialects of the Kmhmu language, which is the largest...Khmer Branch of the Austroasiatic Language Family. Their territory...groups speaking smaller languages of the Khmuic Family...
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Hill Tribespeople
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the army to teach the Khmer language and culture to the hill tribespoeple...trying to teach the Cambodian language and culture to the hill tribespeople...government claims that tribal languages and customs will continue...the border. 3 • LANGUAGE The hill tribes of Cambodia...group speaks ...
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Munda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Munda refers primarily to a group of Languages, but the tribes that speak those languages have collectively become known to scholarship...Munda is the westernmost branch of the Austroasiatic Language Family, which is otherwise associated...
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Cambodia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...Affiliation. The dominant Khmer language belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and is related to...a number of other Asian languages. Khmer writing, derived...use of French as a second language, it is probably giving...bilingual, freely use their own languages, and Vietnamese ...
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Santal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...ongoing process of migration. Linguistic Affiliation. The Santal language, Santali, belongs to the North Mundari Group of languages, itself part of the Austroasiatic Language Family. Writing was introduced by Norwegian missionaries in the...
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