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Meaning of INDO-CHINESE

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \In`do-Chi*nese"\, a. [Indo- + Chinese.]
    Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or
    India beyond the Ganges).
    
    
  2. \In`do-Chi*nese"\, a.
    1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China.
    
    2. Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther
       India, or designating, or of, their languages.
    
             Tradition and comparative philology agree in
             pointing to northwestern China, between the upper
             courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho,
             as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race.
                                                   --Census of
                                                   India, 1901.
    
    
 

 

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