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Austroasiatic languages facts for kids

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The different Austroasiatic languages.
Mekong river basin
It has been proposed that the languages spread through the drainage basin of the Mekong River

The Austroasiatic languages are a proposed group of languages, spoken in Southeast Asia. In total, there are 157 languages, with about 117 million speakers. The biggest group of speakers speak Khmer language or Vietnamese. These are also official languages in the territories where there are spoken.

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  • The proposed route of Austroasiatic and Austronesian migration into Indonesia and the geographic distribution of sites that have produced red-slipped and cord-marked pottery

    The Austroasiatic migration route began earlier than the Austronesian expansion, but later migrations of Austronesians resulted in the assimilation of the pre-Austronesian Austroasiatic populations.

  • Proto-Austroasiatic migration

    Austroasiatic migration

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Lenguas austroasiáticas para niños

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