Proto-Austroasiatic
E220628
Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Austroasiatic canonical | 11 |
| Proto-Austric | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1945956 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Proto-Austroasiatic Context triple: [Austroasiatic, reconstruction, Proto-Austroasiatic]
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A.
Austroasiatic
Austroasiatic is a large and ancient language family of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, including languages such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon.
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B.
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
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C.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Proto-Sino-Tibetan is the hypothesized common ancestral language from which all modern Sino-Tibetan languages, such as Chinese and Tibetan, are believed to have descended.
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D.
Transeurasian languages
Transeurasian languages are a proposed macro-family of languages stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to East Asia, hypothesized to include Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic.
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E.
Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages are a large and widely dispersed language family spoken across maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, and parts of mainland Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Proto-Austroasiatic Target entity description: Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
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A.
Austroasiatic
Austroasiatic is a large and ancient language family of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, including languages such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon.
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B.
Proto-Austronesian
Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
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C.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Proto-Sino-Tibetan is the hypothesized common ancestral language from which all modern Sino-Tibetan languages, such as Chinese and Tibetan, are believed to have descended.
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D.
Transeurasian languages
Transeurasian languages are a proposed macro-family of languages stretching from Eastern Europe across Siberia to East Asia, hypothesized to include Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic.
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E.
Austronesian languages
Austronesian languages are a large and widely dispersed language family spoken across maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands, and parts of mainland Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Aslian languages
ⓘ
Bahnaric languages ⓘ Katuic languages ⓘ Khasi language ⓘ Khasic languages ⓘ Khmer language ⓘ
linked to:
Khmer
Khmeric languages ⓘ Mon language ⓘ Monic languages ⓘ Munda languages ⓘ Nicobarese languages ⓘ Palaungic languages ⓘ Pearic languages ⓘ Vietic languages ⓘ Vietnamese language ⓘ
linked to:
Vietnamese
|
| estimatedAge | approximately 4000–6000 years before present ⓘ |
| evidenceType | comparative evidence from daughter languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Proto-Mon–Khmer
ⓘ
linked to:
Mon-Khmer
|
| hasLexicalReconstructionDomain |
forest and fauna terms
ⓘ
rice agriculture vocabulary ⓘ riverine and wetland terminology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
derivational morphology
ⓘ
monosyllabic roots ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant inventory
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ rich vowel system ⓘ |
| hasReconstructionMethod | comparative method ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | basic SVO word order (hypothesized) ⓘ |
| influenced |
reconstructions of Proto-Khmeric
ⓘ
reconstructions of Proto-Vietic ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy |
Gerard Diffloth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry L. Shorto ⓘ Laurent Sagart ⓘ Paul Sidwell ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Austroasiatic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Austroasiatic
|
| spokenInPrehistoryOf |
Eastern India
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern India
Mainland Southeast Asia ⓘ
linked to:
Indochinese Peninsula
Southern China ⓘ
linked to:
southern China
|
| status | not directly attested ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Austroasiatic languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Austroasiatic
|
| timeDepth | Neolithic period ⓘ |
| usedInField |
Austroasiatic studies
ⓘ
comparative linguistics ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Proto-Austroasiatic Description of subject: Proto-Austroasiatic is the hypothesized common ancestor language from which all modern Austroasiatic languages, such as Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon, are believed to have descended.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Proto-Austroasiatic