The Bit-Khang languages are a subgroup of the Khasi-Palaungic branch of Austroasiatic, spoken in southern China, northern Laos and northwestern Vietnam, comprising a Bit cluster of Bit, also called Khabit, Psing or Buxing, and Quang Lam, and a Khang cluster of Khang and Bumang. Formerly classified as Khmuic, Paul Sidwell proposed their Palaungic affiliation in 2014 on the basis of shared lexical innovations including the words for eye, fire, blood and laugh, theorizing that Bit-Khang originated as Eastern Palaungic before undergoing relexification through contact with Khmuic languages as its speakers migrated eastward.
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