Editing Kra–Dai languages (section)

===Edmondson and Solnit (1988)===
An early but influential classification, with the traditional Kam–Tai clade, was [[Jerold A. Edmondson|Edmondson]] and Solnit's classification from 1988:<ref name=edmondson1988>Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit, editors. 1988. Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 86. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. vii, 374 p.</ref><ref name="Tai">Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit, editors. 1997. Comparative Kadai: the Tai branch. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 124. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. vi, 382 p.</ref>

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* '''Kra–Dai'''
** [[Kra languages|Kra]] (Geyang)
** [[Hlai languages|Hlai]]
** [[Kam–Tai languages|Kam–Tai]]
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**** [[Lakkia language|Lakkia]]–[[Biao language|Biao]]
**** [[Kam–Sui languages|Kam–Sui]]
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**** [[Be languages|Be]]
**** [[Tai languages|Tai]]
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This classification is also used by Liang and Zhang (1996),<ref>Liang Min & Zhang Junru. 1996. ''An introduction to the Kam–Tai languages''. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press.</ref> Chamberlain (2016: 38),<ref>Chamberlain, James R. 2016. Kra–Dai and the proto-history of South China and Vietnam. ''Journal of the Siam Society'' 104. 27–77.</ref> and  ''Ethnologue'', though by 2009 Lakkia was made a third branch of Kam–Tai and Biao was moved into Kam–Sui.