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Austro-Tai

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The Austro-Tai languages, sometimes called Austro-Thai, are a proposed language family that comprises the Austronesian languages and the Kra-Dai languages. Related proposals include Austric, put forward by Wilhelm Schmidt in 1906, and Sino-Austronesian, put forward by Laurent Sagart in 1990 and 2005.

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Proposed family, not an established one 1
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1. Austro-Tai languages, Wikipedia
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a proposed language family that comprises the Austronesian languages
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