Katuic languages

Katuic
Ethnicity	Katuic peoples
Geographic distribution	Indochina
Linguistic classification	Austroasiatic Katuic
Proto-language	Proto-Katuic
Subdivisions	Katu Kui–Bru (West) Pacoh Ta'Oi–Kriang
Glottolog	katu1271
Katuic

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 ^{[citation needed]}. He notes that Austroasiatic/Mon–Khmer languages are lexically more similar to Katuic and Bahnaric the closer they are geographically. He says this geographic similarity is independent of which branch of the family each language belongs to. He also says Katuic and Bahnaric do not have any shared innovations, so they do not form a single branch of the Austroasiatic family, but form separate branches.