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Siloid languages

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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]

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Most Siloid languages are spoken in Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, with smaller numbers of speakers living in China (Yunnan) and Vietnam (Lai Châu Province).

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Languages

The Siloid languages are:

Luma is also closely related to Akeu according to Lew (2023).[2]

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)[3] as follows.

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References

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