Kam-Sui languages

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

[edit] Classification

It includes 8 languages:

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

[edit] 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