The Khasi–Palaungic languages are a primary branch of the
Austroasiatic
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are th ...
language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in h ...
of
Southeast Asia
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in the classification of Sidwell (2011, 2018). This is a departure from Diffloth (2005) classification of Khasi-Khmuic with
Khmuic and
Mangic (Pakanic) now being separate branches within Austroasiatic family.
Languages
As per the classification of Sidwell (2011) and (2018), the Khasi–Palaungic languages are as follows:
* Khasi–Palaungic
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Khasic:
War,
Lyngngam,
Khasi
Khasi may refer to:
* Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India
* Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India
* Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India
See also
* Khasi Hills
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Palaungic
The nearly thirty Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages.
Phonological developments
Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austroasiatic consonants, with the disti ...
:
Palaung,
Riang,
Blang ,
Wa...
Footnotes
References
*Diffloth, Gérard 2005. "The contribution of linguistic palaeontology and Austroasiatic". in Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. ''The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics.'' 77–80. London: Routledge Curzon.
*Sidwell, Paul. 2011.
. ''Proto-Khasian and Khasi-Palaungic''. Austroasiatic Languages Project. Australian National University
*Sidwell, Paul. 2014.
Khmuic classification and homeland. ''Mon-Khmer Studies'' 43.1:47-56
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