Austric, a.
(ˈɔːstrɪk)
[ad. G. austrisch (W. Schmidt Die Mon-Khmer-Völker (1906) 70), f. L. Austr- (see austrian a.2) + -ic.]
Designating or pertaining to a family of languages comprising the Austro-Asiatic and Austronesian families.
| 1927 [see Austro-2]. 1933 Bloomfield Language iv. 71 Some scholars believe both the Munda and the Mon-Khmer families to be related to the Malayo-Polynesian family (forming the so-called Austric family of languages). |