mon-khmer

The Austroasiatic languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of continental Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the southern border of China. The name Austroasiatic comes from the Latin words for "south" and "Asia", hence "South Asia". Of these languages, only Vietnamese, Khmer, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status (in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively). The rest of the languages are spoken by minority groups. Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages. These form thirteen established families (plus perhaps Shompen, which is poorly attested, as a fourteenth), which have traditionally been grouped into two, as Mon–Khmer and Munda. However, one recent classification posits three groups (Munda, Nuclear Mon-Khmer and  Khasi-Khmuic) while another has abandoned Mon–Khmer as a taxon altogether, making it synonymous with the larger family.

Die austroasiatischen Sprachen sind eine Sprachfamilie, deren etwa 160 Sprachen von rund 100 Millionen Menschen in Südostasien und Nordostindien gesprochen werden. Obwohl diese Sprachen in weiten Teilen Süd- und Südostasiens verbreitet sind, haben nur zwei den Status einer Nationalsprache: das Vietnamesische und das Khmer (Kambodschanisch).

1. WEITERLEITUNG Austroasiatische Sprachen#Klassifikation

Les langues môn-khmer sont un ensemble discontinu de langues parlées en Asie du Sud-Est. Avec les langues munda parlées en Inde, elles forment la famille des langues austroasiatiques.