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adj
Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
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adj
Australasian.
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History
Borrowed from German Austroasiatisch, austroasiatisch, coined by Wilhelm Schmidt, from Latin auster (“south”) + German asiatisch (“Asian”).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
