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  2. Mainland Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...

  3. Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area - Wikipedia

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    The Austroasiatic languages include Vietnamese and Khmer, as well as many other languages spoken in scattered pockets as far afield as Malaya and eastern India.Most linguists believe that Austroasiatic languages once ranged continuously across southeast Asia and that their scattered distribution today is the result of the subsequent migration of speakers of other language groups from southern ...

  4. Indochine - Wikipedia

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    Indochina (French: Indochine), a region in Southeast Asia roughly east of India and south of China French Indochina, the part of the French colonial empire in Indochina; Indochine (band), a French new wave/rock band, formed in 1981; Indochine, a 1992 French film

  5. French Indochina - Wikipedia

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    French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), [a] [b] officially known as the Indochinese Union [c] [d] and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, [e] was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954.

  6. Austroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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    Vietic: 10 languages of Vietnam and Laos, including Muong and Vietnamese, which has the most speakers of any Austroasiatic language. Katuic: 19 languages of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Khmero-Bahnaric languages Bahnaric: 40 languages of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Khmeric languages The Khmer dialects of Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

  7. Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of Austroasiatic languages Ethnolinguistic map of Indochina, 1970. Note: map situation has now changed due to internal migration. Vietnamese people;

  8. Indo-Chinese - Wikipedia

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  9. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    The Language families of Asia. Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic.