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A Mon-Khmer languages are a autochthonic languages of Indo-China. Together by having a Munda languages of India, they compose a Austroasiatic phylum of languages.

Mon-Khmer Languages
Pearic is a remnant on the Cambodian coast. Eastern Khmer (or Cambodian) around Cambodia, southern Vietnam, and northeastern Thailand (15 to 22 million) Bahnaric in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Katuic in central Laos Viet-Muong in Vietnam (66 to 73 million speakers) Northern Khasic in Meghalaya, India. Palaungic in the upper Salween, Sino-Burmese border, northern Thailand Khmuic in northern Laos within China Palyu in China Southern Monic in the lower Salween, Burma (1 million). Aslian in peninsular Malaysia, split into three groups, Jahaic, Senoic & Semelaic. Nicobarese on the Nicobar Islands. Unclassified inside China inside China around China within China

Mon-Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the assumption that languages tend to be consistently head-initial or head-final is not true, and that verb-object order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation with the order of various kinds of modifiers.

Khmer Inscription and Language
Illustrated site devoted to early inscriptions in the Khmer language.

Mon-Khmer Languages
Overview of the characteristics of the Mon-Khmer languages.

KhasiLit
Provides information on the growth and development of the Khasi language, literature and culture. Khasi is spoken in NE India and in Bangladesh.

Rien Khmer
A site devoted to the teaching of Khmer, with emphasis on the script, the phonology, and the numerals of the language.