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Nuclear Mon-Khmer in a sentence
1. However, one recent classification posits three groups (Munda, Nuclear Mon-Khmer and Khasi–Khmuic), while another has abandoned Mon–Khmer as a taxon altogether, making it synonymous with the larger family.
2. The only proper classification of Austroasiatic in recent years is that of Diffloth (2005), which breaks up his 1974 conception of Mon–Khmer, resulting in Khasi–Khmuic and Nuclear Mon–Khmer (see).
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- –Khmer
- a taxon
- the larger family
- a disjunct distribution
- other languages
- the extant autochthonous languages
- the neighboring Kra
- later migrations
- the Latin words
- "Asia
- word structure
- an iambic "sesquisyllabic" pattern
- basic nouns
- an initial, unstressed, reduced minor syllable
- a stressed, full syllable
- This reduction
- modern languages
- phonological shapes
- the same original Proto-Austroasiatic prefixes
- the causative prefix
- CVC syllables
- consonant clusters
- single consonants
- word formation
- most Austroasiatic languages
- derivational prefixes
- almost completely non-existent
- most branches
- a few specialized exceptions
- other Austroasiatic branches
- unusually large vowel inventories
- some sort
- register contrast
- modal (normal) voice
- modal voice and creaky voice
- the Pearic branch
- the Vietic branch
- a three- or even four-way voicing contrast
- some Austroasiatic languages
- the register contrast