Lama (2012) classified 36 Lolo-Burmese languages based on computational analyses of shared phonological innovations.

The Central and Southwestern branches shares various phonological innovations, suggesting an initial split with the Northern branch.

In comparison, Unami has undergone extensive phonological innovation, coupled with morphological regularization.

It did so on the basis of shared phonological, morphosyntactic and lexicosemantic innovations.

They share certain intriguing lexical and phonological innovations.

According to Pittayaporn (2009), it is the closest relative of the Southwestern Tai languages, but does not share the phonological innovations that define that group.

Compared to Munsee, Unami has undergone extensive phonological innovation, coupled with morphological regularization.

The speech of coastal areas tends to exhibit phonological innovations typical of Caribbean Spanish, while highland varieties have been historically more conservative.

A complex series of phonological and morphological innovations define Eastern Algonquian as a subgroup.

There is no single phonological innovation that defines Lisoish.