East Asian | |
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(proposed, under study) | |
Geographic distribution | East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Madagascar |
Linguistic classification | Proposed language family |
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | None |
The East Asian languages are a language family (alternatively macrofamily or superphylum) proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001. The proposal has since been adopted by George van Driem and others.