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Unclassified Tai language. Tai Doi ('mountain people') – 230 people (54 families) as of 1995 in Long District of Luang Namtha, Laos. Their language is likely Palaungic. Tai Gapong ('brainy Tai') – 3,200+ people; at least 2,000 people (500+ households) in Ban Varit, Waritchapum District, Sakhon Nakhon Province; also live with the Phutai and ...
The Tai, Zhuang–Tai, [1] or Daic languages [2] (Ahom: 𑜁𑜪𑜨 𑜄𑜩 or 𑜁𑜨𑜉𑜫 𑜄𑜩 kwáam tái ; Shan: ၵႂၢမ်းတႆး; Thai: ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, RTGS: phasa thai or phasa tai; Lao: ພາສາໄຕ, phasa tai) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.
A Tai Festschrift for William J. Gedney on the Occasion of his Fifth Cycle of Life Birthday Anniversary, April 4, 1975. Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 8. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. Harris, Jimmy G.; Chamberlain, James R., eds. (1975). Studies in Tai Linguistics in Honor of William J. Gedney. Bangkok: Central Institute of ...
Proto-Tai is the reconstructed proto-language (common ancestor) of all the Tai languages, including modern Lao, Shan, Tai Lü, Tai Dam, Ahom, Northern Thai, Standard Thai, Bouyei, and Zhuang. The Proto-Tai language is not directly attested by any surviving texts, but has been reconstructed using the comparative method .
Like in other Tai societies, the core social units of the Tai Dam, Tai Dón and Tai Daeng were the village (ban) and the chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a feudal lord (chao). Their base of life was wet rice cultivation, which is why the Tai settled in valleys alongside the course of rivers.
The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .
Tai–Kadai" comes from an obsolete bifurcation of the family into two branches, Tai and Kadai, which had first been proposed by Paul K. Benedict (1942). [10] In 1942, Benedict placed three Kra languages ( Gelao , Laqua ( Qabiao ), and Lachi ) together with Hlai in a group that he called "Kadai", from ka , meaning "person" in Gelao and Laqua ...
The Tai Dam and the Tai Don mostly live in the provinces of the Northwestern Plateau: Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Sơn La and Hoà Bình. The Tai Daeng are found in western part of Nghệ An and Thanh Hóa province where they are a major ethnic group. According to the 1999 General Survey, there were 1,328,725 Thái people in Vietnam.