Pakanic languages

Pakanic
Palyu, Mangic
Geographic
distribution:
Indochina
Linguistic classification: Austro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:

The Pakanic languages, also known as Palyu and often including Mangic, are a tentative, recently identified branch of Austro-Asiatic languages. They are spoken in southern China and northern Vietnam.

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Classification

Peiros (2004) includes Mang within Pakanic, though Paul Sidwell questions whether and how many of the languages will prove to be a new branch of Austro-Asiatic.

However, Li Yunbing (2005) separates these languages into a Pakanic branch and Mangic branch (Li 2005:307). According to Li (2005), Mangic is sometimes merged into Palaungic.

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Further reading

Chinese

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