Austroasiatic languages have a disjunct distribution through India & Southeast Asia, separated by regions in which more languages come spoken. These come widely believed that a Austroasiatic languages are a autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia & eastern India, and that a more languages of a area, including the Indo European, Tai-Kadai, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are a symptom latterly migrations of people. (There are, for instance, Austroasiatic words in the Tibeto-Burman languages of eastern Nepal.) A bit of linguists stand attempted to prove that Austroasiatic languages come related to Austronesian languages, thus forming a Austric superfamily.

Linguists traditionally recognize 2 major divisions of Austroasiatic, a Mon-Khmer languages of Southeast Asia and a Munda languages of east-central and central India. Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, of which 147 are Mon-Khmer languages and Xxi come Munda languages. All the same, there are no grounds to believe for this classification has ever been published, & it remains speculative.

From each one of the subdivisions of the classification beneath that is written within bold nature and severity is accepted as a valid personal. Nevertheless, a relationships between these families in Austroasiatic is debated. It should exist as noted that little of the information utilized for competing classifications has ever been published, & so can't become evaluated by referee. A classification utilized on this text is that of Diffloth (around click), which doesn't assume traditional Mon-Khmer as a valid unit.

Munda languages (India) Khasi-Khmuic languages Core Mon-Khmer languages There are additionally many unclassified languages of southern China.

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