Description |
These recordings started being collected in 2015 in Ximeng County (西盟县), Lancang County (澜沧县), Menghai County (勐海县) and Shuangjiang County (双江县). The speakers are officially identified as Wazu (佤族) and Bulangzu (布朗族) which actually include some different but relatively related ethnic groups who have different autonyms and speak mutually unintelligible languages. According to the current study, these languages are classified into the Waic branch of the Mon-Khmer family, ultimately belonging to the Austro-Asiatic phylum. |