East Asian languages
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This article is about the proposed language family. For the languages of the East Asian geographical region, see languages of East Asia.
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.
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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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Glottolog | None |
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