Waic languages
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Ethnicity | Wa people |
Geographic
distribution |
Burma , China |
Linguistic classification |
Austroasiatic
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Glottolog | waic1245 |
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 [1] [2] of Shan State , Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster.
Other Waic languages in Shan State , eastern Myanmar are En and Siam ( Hsem ), [3] [4] which are referred to by Scott (1900) [5] as En and Son . Hsiu (2015) [6] classifies En, Son, and Tai Loi in Scott (1900) as Waic languages, citing the Waic phonological innovation from Proto-Palaungic *s- > h- instead of the Angkuic phonological innovation from Proto-Palaungic *s- > s-.
References
- ↑ Myint Myint Phyu (2013). A Sociolinguistic Survey of Selected Meung Yum and Savaiq Varieties (PDF) (MA thesis). Payap University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Phung Wei Ping (2013). A Phonological Description of Meung Yum and Phonological Comparison of Meung Yum with Three Wa Dialects in China (PDF) (MA thesis). Payap University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Shintani Tadahiko. 2016. The Siam (Hsem) language . Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA), 107. Tokyo: ILCAA.
- ↑ Shintani Tadahiko. 2016. The Va (En) language . Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA), 108. Tokyo: ILCAA.
- ↑ Scott, J. G. 1900. Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States . Superintendent, Government Printing, Rangoon.
- ↑ Hsiu, Andrew. 2015. The Angkuic languages: a preliminary survey . Paper presented ICAAL 6 (6th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics ), Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Further reading
- Sidwell, Paul . 2009. Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: history and state of the art . LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 76. Munich: Lincom Europa.
- Shintani Tadahiko. 2016. The Va (En) language . Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 108. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
External links
- SOAS Wa Dictionary Project and Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma (Myanmar)
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