2013/08/01 by Paul Sidwell · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism #Multilingual Education and Policy
paper · doi:10.1111/lnc3.12038
openalex publication_date 2013/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
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.