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Austroasiatic

An old family of mainland South-East Asia and eastern India. Vietnamese and Khmer are national languages; the family also includes the Munda languages of India (Santali, Ho, Mundari) and Khasi.

8 languages on this site · c. 121 million speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 2 countries.

Highlighted countries: the main official language belongs to this family.

Vietic 1

  1. Vietnamese 92 million

Khmer 2

  1. Khmer 15 million
  2. Northern Khmer 1.2 million

Munda 3

  1. Santali 7.8 million
  2. Ho 1.4 million
  3. Mundari 1.3 million

Khasi-Palaung 1

  1. Khasi 1.1 million

No separate branch 1

  1. Khmu 461 thousand

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.