Language families, multilingualism, official languages

This lecture goes into more detail about the current state of languages in SEA.

Important concepts:

• language family
• language isolate
• linguistic area
• Austronesian
• Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic)
• Sinitic
• Tai-Kadai
• Tibeto-Burman
• Hmong-Mien

Readings and Resources

Slides: Languages of South East Asia and China

The reading is Goddard, Chapter 2.

• Cliff Goddard (2005). The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199248605