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Mon-K hmer group (then called Mon-A nnam) was first pointed out by Logan and others and established on a sure footing by Keane in 1880, Forbes in his work, Comparative Grammar of theL anguages ofF urther India (1881)9 incontestably proved the existence of this linguistic unity. In 1888 Miiller continued the same study further. Euhn in 1889 while emphasising on this linguistic unity remarked 3what is more striking is the relation with A nnamite; there is undeniable relation of the monosyllabic group: Khasi-M on-K hmer with Kolh, Nancowry, and the dialects of the aborigines of Malacca, Schmidt pushed the work of Kuhn further 4and
Mon-K hmer group (then called Mon-A nnam) was first pointed out by Logan and others and established on a sure footing by Keane in 1880, Forbes in his work, Comparative Grammar of theL anguages ofF urther India (1881)9 incontestably proved the existence of this linguistic unity. In 1888 Miiller continued the same study further. Euhn in 1889 while emphasising on this linguistic unity remarked 3what is more striking is the relation with A nnamite; there is undeniable relation of the monosyllabic group: Khasi-M on-K hmer with Kolh, Nancowry, and the dialects of the aborigines of Malacca, Schmidt pushed the work of Kuhn further 4and established the relation between the languages of theM alay peninsula and theM on-K hmer group. He studied also the correspondence in the vocabularies 5and the phonetic laws of those languages. He then applied these laws to 1T he first part of the Introduction is based on (and partly translated from) the French translation of Pater Schmidt sarticle. Of. BEFEO VII, pp. 217ff. 1Q rundriss derS prachwissenschajt, Vol. IV (A ppendix). 8B eitr ge zur Sprachen-kunde Hinterindiens, Sitz. der K. bayer A kad-der wissensch. phil. hist. KL 1889,I, p. 219. Die Sprachen derS akei und Semang auf Malakka und ihr Verh ltnis zu den Mon-khmer Sprachen, Bijdragen tot de Taal Landen Volkenkunde van Nederl. I ndie, 6th series, Fart VIH. BQ rundz ge einer Lautiehre derM on-khmer Sprachen (1905), Denksohriften derK aiserl. A kad. d. Wiss. in Wien
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