The place of Vietnamese in Austroasiatic

La place du vietnamien dans les langues austroasiatiques

André-Georges Haudricourt (1)

1 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale

Vietnamese must be classified in the Austroasiatic language family, between the Palaung-Wa group to the northwest and the Mon-Khmer group to the southwest. [This is an English translation of the article originally published as: La place du vietnamien dans les langues austroasiatiques, Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 49(1): 122–128 (1953).]

Mots clés: Vietnamese language; Austroasiatic languages; Historical phonology; Diachronic linguistics; Panchronic phonology

Domaines: Linguistique

André-Georges Haudricourt. The place of Vietnamese in Austroasiatic. 2017. ⟨halshs-01631477⟩