Ethnicity Wa people Glottolog waic1245 | ||
Linguistic classification AustroasiaticKhasi–KhmuicPalaungo-KhmuicPalaungo-PakanicPalaungicWaic | ||
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 of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster.
References
Waic languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA