Austric Languages
Austric is a large hypothetical grouping of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the eastern Indian subcontinent. It includes the Austronesian language family of Taiwan, the Malay Archipelago, Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as the Austro-Asiatic language family of mainland Southeast Asia, Eastern India, and Bangladesh. The hypothesis of a genetic relationship between these two language families is not widely accepted among linguists.
Related proposals include Sino-Austronesian (Laurent Sagart), Austro-Tai (Paul K. Benedict), and Dené–Caucasian (Sergei Starostin).
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