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Definition of Mon-Khmer

1. Noun. A branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages.

Definition of Mon-Khmer

1. Proper noun. along with the Munda branch one of the two traditionally accepted primary branches of the Austro-Asiatic language family, that includes Mon, Khmer and Vietnamese ¹

2. Proper noun. the Proto-Mon-Khmer language ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mon-Khmer

Literary usage of Mon-Khmer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"The hypothesis of such a Mon-Khmer occupation of the Peninsula is strongly supported by the linguistic evidence. If the above attempt to unravel the tangled ..."

2. The Khasis by Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon (1914)
"... still more closely correspond with the Mon-Khmer languages than with Khasi. Here compare Nan- cowry tei and ti, or ti of the Kol languages. Blood. ..."

3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"PW Schmidt(51) compares the Indian, southeastern Asiatic (Mon Khmer Völker) and the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula in physical characters and language, ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"The Sakai and Semang languages in the Malay Peninsula and their relation to the Mon-Khmer languages. (Straits Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc. Jour. 1903, June, no. ..."

5. Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific by Ward Hunt Goodenough (1996)
"This is not true, however, of Nicobarese, and the forms of the Nicobarese infixes corresponding to mainland Mon-Khmer -m- and -n- turn out to be -um- and ..."

6. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch (1901)
"The Sakai and Semang Languages in the Malay Peninsula and their relation to the Mon-Khmer Languages. BY PW SCHMIDT, sv D. REVIEWED BY WD ..."

7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1911)
"hereby demonstrating its Austronesian character, as distinct from the Mon-Khmer tongues, described by Schmidt (op. cit.). These last mentioned languages, ..."

8. An Elementary Palaung Grammar by Mary Lewis Harper Milne (1921)
"Since the days of Logan, in the middle of the last century, the relationship between Palaung and the Mon-Khmer group of languages has been generally ..."

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