Austro-Tai

English Alternative forms en Austro-Thai obsolete Etymology From the names of the component en Austronesian Austro(nesian) and en Tai Tai(-Kadai) families; en Paul K. Benedict 1966 1 1, referring to his 1942 proposal of the family.June 1998 Robert Blust In Memoriam: Paul King Benedict 1912-1997 Oceanic Linguistics 37 1 University of Hawai'i Press 1527-9421 10.2307/3623277 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3623277 At this point, Paul coined the name "Austro-Thai" (later: "Austro-Tai") for the putative genetic grouping that included Tai-Kadai and Austronesian.1985 Lawrence A. Reid Benedict's Austro-Tai Hypothesis-An Evaluation Asian Perspectives 26 1 University of Hawai'i Press 1535-8283 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928103 In 1966 and 1967 Benedict published a series of three articles which developed more fully the thesis introduced in 1942. These are the articles in which the term "Austro-Thai"4 first appeared. Pronunciation en /ˈɒstɹəʊˌtaɪ/ /ˈɔːstɹəʊˌtaɪ/ dated UK en /ˈɔstɹoʊˌtaɪ/ /ˈɑstɹoʊˌtaɪ/ cot-caught US Proper noun Austro-Tai A proposed language family comprising the Austronesian and Kra-Dai/Tai-Kadai families. en Austronesian Kra-Dai Tai-Kadai en She thinks the evidence for Austro-Tai is more convincing than for Dene-Yeniseian. en 28 February 2025 Zhengzhang Shangfang: 华澳语系同源词根研究 Huáo Aò Yŭ xì Tóng yuán Cígēn Yánjiū (Researches on the cognate roots of the Pan-Sino-Austric family) Shanghai: Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 2024. ISBN 978 7 5444 7681 2. Laurent Sagart Bulletin of SOAS 88 1 10.1017/S0041977X25000035 188 Cambridge University Press Simultaneous membership of Tai-Kadai in Li Fang-kuei's Sino-Tibetan and Benedict's Austro-Tai had posed a problem to Zhengzhang, as he had found both of these mutually exclusive proposals to be well-grounded: Sagart's 1990 suggestion that Chinese and Austronesian are genetically related, soon supported by Xing Gongwan, provided a solution to the conundrum, leading Zhengzhang to the present proposal. Adjective - Austro-Tai Pertaining to that language family. en Austronesian Kra-Dai Tai-Kadai en The paper contained some newly-proposed Austro-Tai etymons. en 1966 Paul K. Benedict Austro-Thai Behaviour Science Notes 1 4 230 10.1177/106939716600100401 Human Relations Area Files New Haven One striking illustration will suffice here: the writer had not even included IN °kutu, Thai (T) °hraw "head louse"; in his list of possible correspondences, but the KS forms (Sui tu, Mak tau, Then tiu) led him to reconstruct T °[t]hraw, and he was delighted to uncover OB kat "lice"; he was then able to interpret the already recognized Li cognate sau~su as a development from a °tl- initial cluster, exactly paralleling IN °təlu "3", Li śu~su, and on this basis was able to reconstruct Austro-Thai (AT) °kut(a)lu. en 24 November 2005 Austro-Tai Hypotheses Lawrence A. Reid L[awrence] A. Reid Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics second Keith Brown 609 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/02109-X 9780080547848 Elsevier Science Sagart rejected the possibility that Proto-Kra-Dai and Proto-Austronesian are sister languages, therefore rejecting the Austro-Tai hypothesis in its original formulation. See also Appendix:Austro-Tai comparanda References en Language families en clippings compound terms