AUSTRO-ASIATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Austro-Asiatic mean? 

• AUSTRO-ASIATIC (noun)
  The noun AUSTRO-ASIATIC has 1 sense:

1. a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia

  Familiarity information: AUSTRO-ASIATIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRO-ASIATIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Austro-Asiatic; Austro-Asiatic language; Munda-Mon-Khmer

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)