Kam-Sui languages

Kam-Sui languages

Infobox Language family
name=Kam-Sui
altname=Dong-Shui
region=Southern China, Southeast Asia, Hainan
familycolor=Tai-Kadai

Kam-Sui languages (Dong-Shui) are a branch of the Tai-Kadai languages. Spoken in southern China with small pockets in Laos.

Classification

Kam-Sui includes a dozen languages. The Lakkia and Biao languages are sometimes separated out as a sister branch to Kam-Sui within a "Be-Kam-Tai" branch of Tai-Kadai, but this is not well supported.

*Lakkia
*Biao
*Ai-Cham
*Dong
**Cao Miao
*Kang
*Mak
*Mulam — spoken by Mulao
*Maonan — spoken by Maonan
*Sui — spoken by Shui people
*T’en

Further reading

*"Tai-kadai Languages". (2007). Curzon Pr. ISBN 9780700714575
* Diller, A. (2005). "The Tai-Kadai languages". London [etc.] : Routledge. ISBN 070071457X
*Edmondson, J. A., & Solnit, D. B. (1988). "Comparative Kadai: linguistic studies beyond Tai". Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics, no. 86. [Arlington, Tex.] : Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0883120666


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