Table 4.
Linguistic distance matrix
| Austroasiatic, Mon-Khmer | Tai-Kadai, Tai | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MO | LW1 | LW2 | PA | BL(1,2) | TN1 | TN2 | KH | LU | YU | YO | |
| MO | * | (1,2,3,4) | (1,2,3,4) | ||||||||
| LW1 | 2 | * | |||||||||
| LW2 | 2 | 1 | * | ||||||||
| PA | 2 | 1 | 1 | * | |||||||
| BL(1-2) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | * | ||||||
| TN1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | * | |||||
| TN2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | * | ||||
| KH | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | * | |||
| LU(1,2,3,4) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | * | ||
| YU(1,2,3,4) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | * | |
| YO | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | * |
Bold letter: Mon-Khmer speaking populations. For population names see Table 1. Samples Blang (BL) 1-2, Lue (LU) 1-4, and Yuan (YU) 1-4 have been merged in this table because their linguistic distance is 0.