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Mainland Southeast Asia is drained by five major river systems, which from west to east are the Irrawaddy, Salween, Chao Phraya, Mekong, and Red rivers. The three largest systems—the Irrawaddy, Salween, and Mekong—have their origins in the Plateau of Tibet. These three rivers are somewhat atypical: their middle and upper drainage basins are ...
The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic families spoken in an area stretching from Thailand to China. [1] Neighbouring languages across these families, though presumed unrelated, often have similar typological ...
The widespread presence of Kra-Dai, Tibeto-Burman, and Hmong-Mien speakers in Mainland Southeast Asia is the result of later migrations. Originating from southern China, where many languages of these families are still spoken, they expanded southwards into Southeast Asia in historical times around the second half of the first millennium CE.
This project focused on the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia—Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and Vietnam—that over the past half century have witnessed a major shift from subsistence agrarian economies to commercialized agriculture and, in the case of Thailand and Vietnam, industrialization.
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region.
Southeast Asia - Trade, Agriculture, Manufacturing: Even prior to the penetration of European interests, Southeast Asia was a critical part of the world trading system. A wide range of commodities originated in the region, but especially important were such spices as pepper, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg. The spice trade initially was developed by Indian and Arab merchants, but it also brought ...
Feb 14, 2022 · The “Kingdom of Funan,” described by third- and sixth-century AD Chinese emissaries, is among Southeast Asia’s better documented first-millennium polities. Appearing in Chinese dynastic annals during the first millennium AD, this kingdom arose in a time of massive ideological and organizational changes that swept through the Old World from Rome to Han China.
