In 1954 Andre-Georges Haudricourt solved this paradox by demonstrating that Vietnamese tones corresponded to certain final consonants in other ( atonal ) Austroasiatic languages .
In 1954 , Andre-Georges Haudricourt resolved this paradox by demonstrating that Austroasiatic tones corresponded to certain final consonants in atonal ( Vietnamese ) other languages .

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