Mainland Southeast Asia Sprachbund

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Sprachbund
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
gptkbp:country gptkb:Cambodia
gptkb:Laos
gptkb:Myanmar
gptkb:Thailand
gptkb:Vietnam
parts of southern China
gptkbp:feature tonal languages
subject–verb–object word order
use of classifiers
lexical borrowing
serial verb constructions
grammatical convergence
lack of inflection
analytic grammar
extensive language contact
monosyllabic word structure
phonological convergence
shared areal features
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mainland Southeast Asia Sprachbund
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Austroasiatic
gptkb:Hmong-Mien
gptkb:Sino-Tibetan
gptkb:Tai-Kadai
gptkb:Austronesian
gptkbp:notableLanguage gptkb:Thai
Burmese
Vietnamese
Hmong
Karen
Khmer
Lao
Mon
Shan
gptkbp:region gptkb:Mainland_Southeast_Asia
gptkbp:relatedTo Areal linguistics
East Asia Sprachbund
South Asia Sprachbund
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:David_Bradley
gptkb:James_A._Matisoff
Norman H. Zide
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sprachbund
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7