Waic languages
| Waic | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity: | Wa people |
| Geographic distribution: | Burma, China |
| Linguistic classification: |
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| Glottolog: | waic1245[1] |
The Waic languages are spoken in Shan State, Burma, in Northern Thailand and in Yunnan province, China.
Classification
Gérard Diffloth reconstructed Proto-Waic in a 1980 paper. His classification is as follows (Sidwell 2009). (Note: Individual languages are highlighted in italics.)
The recently discovered Meung Yum and Savaiq languages[2][3] of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Waic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Myint_Myint_Phyu_Thesis.pdf
- ↑ http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Wendy_Phung_Thesis.pdf
Further reading
- Sidwell, Paul. 2009. Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: history and state of the art. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 76. Munich: Lincom Europa.
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