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Palaungic
There is no agreed genetic classification for the Palaungic branch. We follow Diffloth 2013. Diffloth proposes two main branches: East Palaungic and West Palaungic. East Palaungic consists of two sub-branches: one sub-branch contains all forms of the Wa (Parauk, Vo, La, Avua' etc.), Lawa (Northern Thailand), and B(u)lang (Tai-Loi etc.) languages, and the other sub-branch contains Lamet plus all kinds of Angkuic (Hu, U, Angku, A-mok, I-mok etc.). The other main branch, West-Palaungic, consists of all forms of the following: Ta-ang (Gold Palaung); Pale (Silver Palaung); Ruma'ai, and Na-ang, plus the various Riang languages, and finally Kano' (Danau). This East-West division corresponds geographically almost exactly to either side of the Salween River (except for one pocket of Na-ang (West Palaungic) which is spoken on the eastern bank of the Salween river). (Diffloth pers. comm. 2013-04-19)
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RWAAI is committed to the preservation and ongoing maintenance of both legacy and recent research materials documenting the languages and cultures of Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It facilitates the presentation of intangible heritage collections in a unique, accessible location for fellow researchers, Austroasiatic communities, and the general public. The various corpora include a range of materials, among them audio and visual recordings, transcriptions and annotations, dictionaries and wordlists, photos, drawings, and maps.

RWAAI also provides a dynamic, digital workspace for contributors where they can store, curate and reuse their collections. Many of our corpora are undergoing continued construction, and are frequently updated.

RWAAI is funded by a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Infrastructure Grant, and
housed on servers hosted by the Humanities Lab, Lund University. This facility is a part of the pan-European Clarin Initiative, which seeks to establish integrated and interoperable infrastructure for languages and language technology. The Language Archive, MPI, Nijmegen provide software and technical expertise.