Waic languages

Waic
Ethnicity:	Wa people
Geographic distribution:	Burma, China
Linguistic classification:	Austroasiatic Khasi–Khmuic Palaungo-Khmuic Palaungo-Pakanic Palaungic Waic
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.)

• Waic
  • Samtau (later renamed "Blang" by Diffloth)
    • Samtau
  • Wa–Lawa–La
    • Wa proper
      • Wa
    • Lawa
      • Bo Luang
      • Umphal

The recently discovered Meung Yum and Savaiq languages^[2][3] of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster.

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Waic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Myint_Myint_Phyu_Thesis.pdf
3. 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.