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1 The Geography of South Eurasian languages Guillaume JACQUES Université Paris V - CRLAO

2 The six major language families of South Eurasia

3 The six major language families of South Eurasia

4 Sino-Tibetan / Tibeto-Burman

5 Austronesian

6 Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)

7 Kra-dai (Tai-kadai)

8 Austroasiatic

9 Dravidian

10 Language Isolates

11 Language Isolates Burushaski

12 Language Isolates Burushaski Kusunda

13 Language Isolates Burushaski Kusunda Nahali

14 Sino-Tibetan

15 Sino-Tibetan / Indochinese
Thai Miao-Yao Tibeto-Burman Qiangic Tibetan Lolo-Burmese

16 Sino-Tibetan / Indochinese
Tibeto-Burman Qiangic Tibetan Lolo-Burmese

17 Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman)
Chinese Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Qiangic Other primary branches Tibeto-Burman (Klaproth 1823) Nearly 30 primary branches

18 The Primary Branches of Sino-Tibetan

19 1100 CE Tangut Tibetan Chinese Burmese

20 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (1)

21 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (2)

22 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)

23 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)

24 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)

25 Sino-Tibetan Urheimat (3)

26 Austronesian

27 Subgrouping Urheimat in Taiwan circa 3500 BCE

28 Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)

29 Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien)
Split 500 BCE Most of the reconstructible vocabulary of Chinese origin.

30 Kra-dai (Tai-kadai)

31 Kra-dai (Ostapirat 2005) Split 2000 BCE

32 Urheimat of Kra-dai in Guangxi

33 Austroasiatic

34 Austroasiatic Khmer Mon

35 Austroasiatic (Diffloth 2005)
Split 5000 BCE

36 Dravidian Brahui

37 Macrophyla Sino-Austronesian (Sagart)
ST, Austronesian Kra-Dai as a Subgroup of AN within East Coastal Linkage (Sagart)

38 Macrophyla Indochinese (Leyden 1806) Turanian (Müller)
ST, (MT), KD, (Austroasiatic) Turanian (Müller) ST, KD, AA, AN, Dravidian Austric (Schmidt 1906) Austroasiatic, Austronesian Austro-Thai (Schlegel 1901, Wulff 1942, Benedict) Kra-Dai, Austronesian Miao-Yao / Austroasiatic (Davies 1909)

39 Macrophyla Sino-Caucasian (Starostin) Austric (Pejros)
ST, Ienissean, West Caucasian Austric (Pejros) Kra-Dai, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, MY

40 Macrophyla East-Asian (Zhengzhang, Starosta)
ST, MY, Austronesian, KD, Austroasiatic

41 Macrophyla Elamo-dravidian (McAlpin) : Dravidian Indus Civilisation.


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