Common word structures in Proto-Austroasiatic include *CV(C) and *CCV(C) roots. *CVC roots can also be affixed either via prefixes or infixes, as in *C-CVC or *C⟨C⟩VC (Shorto 2006). Sidwell (2008) gives the following … 展开

Below are some Proto-Austroasiatic words relating to animals, plants, agriculture, and material culture from Sidwell (2024).
Invertebrates
• *ciʔ 'head … 展开

Paul Sidwell (2009) suggested that the likely homeland of Austroasiatic is in the Mekong River region, and that the family is not as old as frequently assumed, dating to perhaps 2,000 BCE.
However, Ilia Peiros (2011) criticized Sidwell's 2009 riverine … 展开

Sidwell (2008) considers the two most morphologically conservative Mon–Khmer branches to be Khmuic and Aslian. On the other hand, Vietnamese morphology is far more similar to that of 展开

Like the Tai languages, Proto-Mon–Khmer has an SVO, or verb-medial, order. Proto-Mon–Khmer also makes use of noun classifiers and 展开

Austroasiatic branch-level reconstructions include:
• Proto-Munda: Sidwell & Rau (2015) (list)
• Proto-Khasic: Sidwell (2012) (list)
• Proto- 展开

• Mon–Khmer languages at SEAlang
• Mon–Khmer.com: Lectures by Paul Sidwell
• Mon–Khmer languages at Ethnologue
• Classifications of Mon–Khmer languages Archived 18 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine 展开