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Austro-Asiatic Language tree
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2015/03/04 - 12:12pm

I have a young student (1st grade)who is interested in the history of language.  I find and showed him this language tree

 

He was fascinated, and his teacher and I (the librarian) helped him figure it out.

But now he is interested in the history of Korean and other Asian languages.

He has asked for an Austro-Asiatic Language tree, but I cannot find any that even I can understand.  His curiosity is bigger than his reading comprehension, so we are having trouble finding resources.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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2015/03/04 - 1:43pm

Greetings EBredberg, and welcome to the forum. That's not the easiest language tree to decipher. Check out this one that came up in a thread last year:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59665/feast-your-eyes-beautiful-linguistic-family-tree

Several forum members thought it was a lot easier to understand, and more artistic, than the standard language trees. Hope it helps!

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