Proto-Austroasiatic language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Austroasiatic languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Proto-Austroasiatic is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austroasiatic languages. Proto-Mon–Khmer (i.e., all Austroasiatic branches except for Munda) has been reconstructed in Harry L. Shorto's Mon–Khmer Comparative Dictionary, while a new Proto-Austroasiatic reconstruction is currently being undertaken by Paul Sidwell.[1]
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Proto-Austroasiatic | |
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Proto-Mon–Khmer | |
Reconstruction of | Austroasiatic languages |
Region | Southern China or northern Southeast Asia |
Era | c. 3000 BCE – c. 2000 BCE |
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Scholars generally date the ancestral language to c. 3000 BCE – c. 2000 BCE with a homeland in southern China or the Mekong River valley. Sidwell (2022) proposes that the locus of Proto-Austroasiatic was in the Red River Delta area around c. 2500 BCE – c. 2000 BCE.[2]