West Katuic Languages
The fifteen Katuic languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 1.3 million people in Southeast Asia. People who speak Katuic languages are called the Katuic peoples. Paul Sidwell is the leading specialist on the Katuic languages. He notes that Austroasiatic/Mon–Khmer languages are lexically more similar to Katuic and Bahnaric the closer they are geographically, independently of which branch of the family they belong to, but that Katuic and Bahnaric do not have any shared innovations that would suggest that together they form a branch of the Austroasiatic family.
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