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Vietnamese Classification

Vietnamese was identified more than 150 years ago[3] to be part of the Viet-Muong (or Vietic) grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in eastern India, and others in southern China. Even though this is supported by etymological comparison [4], some linguists still believe that Viet-Muong is a separate family, genealogically unrelated to other Mon-Khmer languages.

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