| Proto-Austroasiatic | |
|---|---|
| Proto-Mon–Khmer | |
| Reconstruction of | Austroasiatic languages |
| Region | Southern China or northern Southeast Asia |
| Era | c. 3000 BCE – c. 2000 BCE |
| Lower-order reconstructions | |
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]
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]
500 Proto-Austroasiatic etyma were published by Paul Sidwell in 2024.[3]
- ^ Alves, Mark; Sidwell, Paul James (2022). "Re-evaluating Shorto's Austroasiatic Reconstructions ("Will the Real Austroasiatic Etyma Please Stand Up?")". 10th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL10). doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.22170.72645. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Sidwell, Paul (28 January 2022). Alves, Mark; Sidwell, Paul (eds.). "Austroasiatic Dispersal: the AA "Water-World" Extended". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: Papers from the 30th Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021). 15 (3): 95–111. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5773247. ISSN 1836-6821. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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