Mon-Khmer

[ mohn-kmair, -kuh-mair ]

noun

1. a group of Austroasiatic languages that includes Mon, of Myanmar (Burma), and Khmer, the language of Cambodia.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Mon-Khmer.

Mon-Khmer

noun

1. a family of languages spoken chiefly in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Assam; probably a member of the Austro-Asiatic phylum

adjective

1. of or belonging to this family of languages

Example Sentences

These practices and beliefs are observed among the hill tribes of Assam from the Abors and Mishmis on the north to the Lusheis on the south, all linguistically members of the Tibeto-Burman group, and among the Khasis, members of the Mon-Khmer group.

From Project Gutenberg

“The Mundas, the Mon-Khmer, the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula and the Nicobarese all use forms of speech which can be traced back to a common source though they mutually differ widely from each other.”

From Project Gutenberg

Its people are known to philological research as Austroasiatics, who formed the original stock of the Australian aborigines; they survived in India as the Munda tribes, in Indo-China as the Mon-Khmer, and also remained in pockets on the islands of Indonesia and especially Melanesia.

From Project Gutenberg

Its people are known to philological research as Austroasiatics, who formed the original stock of the Australian aborigines; they survived in India as the Munda tribes, in Indo-China as the Mon-Khmer, and also remained in pockets on the islands of Indonesia and especially Melanesia.

From Project Gutenberg