Austric languages

Austric
(proposed)
Geographic distribution	Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South Asia, East Asia, Madagascar
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family
Subdivisions	Austroasiatic Austronesian (Kra–Dai – sometimes included) (Hmong–Mien – sometimes included)
Glottolog	None
The distribution of Austric languages   Austroasiatic   Austronesian   Kra-Dai   Hmong-Mien

The Austric languages are a proposed language family that includes the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Madagascar, as well as Kra–Dai and Austroasiatic languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. A genetic relationship between these language families is seen as plausible by some scholars, but remains unproven.^[1][2]

Additionally, Hmong–Mien languages are included by some linguists, and even Japanese was speculated to be Austric in an early version of the hypothesis by Paul K. Benedict.^[3]