RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Austroasiatic Languages, Afroasiatic Languages
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Southeast asian languages language area shared features a lot of svc, isolating morphology suprasegmental = a property of a segment that can change the meaning of the word, hovers above sound you"re trying to make, ex. Hmong-mien isolating morphology originally considered part of sino tibetan around 8 million speakers features (cid:12254) Svc (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) tone (cid:12254) suprasegmental heavy contrastive nasality numerical classi ers voiceless nasals rare around the world. Hmong has 7/8 tones breathiness and creeky voice. 95 languages most common = thai and lao features (cid:12254) Svc (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) numerical classi ers tonality isolating morphology. 66 million speakers but munda sub branch is very di erent in uence from dravidian and ie:indic languages agglutinating some people call them mon khmer (cid:12254) Munda branch is very di erent due to language contact (cid:12254) (cid:12254) austro-asiatic not same as austronesian and afro-asiatic features (cid:12254)