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Austro-Asiatic

Austro-Asiatic is the alternative spelling of Austroasiatic.

Meaning of Austroasiatic

Adjective

Austroasiatic (comparative more Austroasiatic, superlative most Austroasiatic)

  1. Of the Austroasiatic languages, a major language family spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, India and the Nicobar Islands.
  2. Australasian.
    • This haemoglobin variant emerged in an Austroasiatic people and subsequently diffused throughout southeast Asia and then to other places.1987, Bhuban Mohan Das, The Peoples of Assam, page 168

Forms of Austro-Asiatic

comparativemore Austro-Asiatic
superlativemost Austro-Asiatic

Questions about Austro-Asiatic

What is Austro-Asiatic the alternative spelling of?
Austro-Asiatic is the alternative spelling of Austroasiatic.

Words near Austro-Asiatic in the dictionary

  1. austrine
  2. austringer
  3. austringers
  4. austrium
  5. Austro-
  6. Austro-Asiatic
  7. Austro-Hungarian
  8. Austro-Hungarian Empire
  9. Austro-Hungarians
  10. Austro-Hungary
  11. Austro-Slavism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Austro-Asiatic (page history and authors); Austroasiatic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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