Siloid languages
The Siloid languages belong to the Southern Loloish (Hanoish) branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Siloid branch was first proposed by Hsiu (2016).[1]
| Siloid | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Si La people |
| Geographic distribution | Northern Laos and Indochina |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Glottolog | sila1251 |
Most Siloid languages are spoken in Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, with smaller numbers of speakers living in China (Yunnan) and Vietnam (Lai Chau Province).
Classification
The internal classifications of Siloid languages were analyzed in a 2016 computational phylogenetic lexical analysis by Hsiu (2016).[1]
- Siloid
The Siloid classification above was subsequently revised by Hsiu (2018)[2] as follows.
- Siloid
References
- Hsiu, Andrew. 2016. The classification of Cosao: a Lolo-Burmese language of China and Laos. Presented at the 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium, Guwahati, India.
- Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages.
- Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington (archived)
- Kingsadā, Thō̜ngphet, and Tadahiko Shintani. 1999 Basic Vocabularies of the Languages Spoken in Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
- Shintani, Tadahiko, Ryuichi Kosaka, and Takashi Kato. 2001. Linguistic Survey of Phongxaly, Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
- Kato, Takashi. 2008. Linguistic Survey of Tibeto-Burman languages in Lao P.D.R. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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