Tai Lue ( New Tai Lü : ᦅᧄᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ , Tai Tham : ᨣᩴᩣᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᩃᩨ᩶ , kam tai lue , [kâm.tâj.lɯ̀] ) or Xishuangbanna Dai is a Tai language of the Lu people , spoken by about 700,000 people in Southeast Asia . This includes 280,000 people in China ( Yunnan ), 200,000 in Burma, 134,000 in Laos, 83,000 in Thailand and 4,960 in Vietnam . The language is similar to other Tai languages and is closely related to Kham Mueang or Tai Yuan, which is also known as Northern Thai language . In Yunnan, it is spoken in all of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , as well as Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er City .
12-415: Tai Lue or Tai Lü may refer to: Tai Lue language Tai Lue people See also [ edit ] New Tai Lue (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tai Lue . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
24-496: A glottal stop [ʔ] and obstruent sounds which are [p], [t] , and [k] . Word order is usually subject–verb–object (SVO); modifiers (e.g. adjectives) follow nouns. As in Thai and Lao, Tai Lue has borrowed many Sanskrit and Pali words and affixes . Among the Tai languages in general, Tai Lue has limited intelligibility with Shan and Tai Nua and shares much vocabulary with,
36-592: A single sound and associated tone. In many words, the initial ร ( /r/ ) in Thai is ฮ ( /h/ ) in Tai Lue, as is also the case in Lao and Tai Yuan: Aspirated consonants in the low-class consonant group(อักษรต่ำ /ʔàk sɔ̌n tàm/ ) become unaspirated: (Note that the vowels also differ greatly between Tai Lue and Thai in many words, even though they are etymologically related and share the same root.) Though many aspirated consonants often become unaspirated, when an unaspirated consonant
48-758: Is called 老傣文 lao dai wen (Old Dai script) in Chinese. Readable by the most people in Burma, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. New Tai Lue is a modernization of the Lanna alphabet (also known as the Tai Tham script ), which is similar to the Thai alphabet , and consists of 42 initial consonant signs (21 high-tone class, 21 low-tone class), seven final consonant signs, 16 vowel signs, two tone letters and one vowel shortening letter (or syllable-final glottal stop). Vowels signs can be placed before or after
60-574: Is closely related to other Tai languages . Khün shares 90% to 95% lexical similarity with Northern Thai language , 92% to 95% with Lü , 93% to 97% with Shan , and 80% to 83% with standard Thai . In China, there are about 10,000 Tai Khuen ( Chinese : 傣艮/傣痕 ) people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999). There are contrastive five or six tones in Khün. The varieties spoken in Keng Tung City, Kang Murng, and Kat Fah have five tones, and
72-667: Is followed by ร ( /r/ ) the unaspirated consonant becomes aspirated: Other differences: Tai Lue is written in three different scripts. One is the Fak Kham script , a variety of the Thai script of Sukhothai . The second is the Tham script, which was reformed in the 1950s, but is still in use and has recently regained government support. The new script is a simplified version of the old script. An ancient script, also used in Kengtung , Northern Thailand and Northern Laos centuries ago. The Tham script
84-1305: The Dai people , along with speakers of the other Tai languages apart from Zhuang . Tai Lue has 21 syllable-initial consonants, 9 syllable-finals and six tones (three different tones in checked syllables, six in open syllables). The initials t͡s - and s - are palatalized before front vowels (which in the language are i , e , and ɛ ) and become t͡ɕ- and ɕ- , respectively. For example, /t͡síŋ/ "hard" and /si᷄p/ "ten" are pronounced as [t͡ɕiŋ˥] and [ɕip˧˥] respectively. (Some textbooks denote t͡s as c ). Each vowel quality occurs in long-short pairs: these are distinct phonemes forming distinct words in Tai Lue. Generally, vowels in open syllables (without codas) occur as long whereas ones in closed syllables are short (except /aː/ and /uː/ ). Additionally, Tai Lue uses several diphthongs: The table below presents six phonemic tones in unchecked syllables, i.e. closed syllables ending in sonorant sounds such as [m], [n], [ŋ], [w] , and [j] and open syllables. There are six tones for unchecked syllables, although only three are allowed in checked syllables (those ending with -p, -t or -k). The table below presents two phonemic tones in checked syllables, i.e. closed syllables ending in
96-631: The Chinese Dai 汉傣 . Kh%C3%BCn language Khün , or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ , /taj˧˧.kʰɯːn˧˨˥/ ; Shan : တႆးၶိုၼ် Thai : ไทเขิน [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn] ), also known as Kengtung tai , Kengtung Shan , is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung , Shan State , Myanmar . It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province , Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China . The Khün varieties share 93% to 100% lexical similarity . Khun
108-559: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tai_Lue&oldid=1038370922 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tai Lue language In Vietnam, Tai Lue speakers are officially recognised as the Lự ethnic minority, although in China they are classified as part of
120-518: The other Southwestern Tai languages . Tai Lue has 95% lexical similarity with Northern Thai (Lanna), 86% with Central Thai, 93% with Shan, and 95% with Khun . Below, some Thai Lue words are given with standard Central Thai equivalents for comparison. Thai words are shown on the left and Tai Lue words, written in New Tai Lue script , are shown on the right. Many words differ from Thai greatly: Some words differ in tone only: Some words differ in
132-638: The syllable initial consonant. Similar to the Thai alphabet, the pronunciation of the tone of a syllable depends on the class the initial consonant belongs to, syllable structure and vowel length , and the tone mark. The Bajia people ( 八甲人 ), who number 1,106 individuals in Mengkang Village ( 勐康村 ), Meng'a Town ( 勐阿镇 ), Menghai County , Yunnan, speak a language closely related to Tai Lue. There are 225 Bajia people living in Jingbo Township 景播乡, Menghai County (You 2013:270). The Bajia are also known as
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#1732847745428144-456: The variety spoken in Murng Lang has six tones. Keng Tung City, Kang Murng, and Murng Lang are part of Kengtung Township . The table below presents the tones in the varieties spoken in Keng Tung City, Kang Murng, Kat Fah, and Murng Lang. These tones occur in smooth syllables which are open syllables or closed syllables ending in a sonorant sound , such as /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /w/, or /j/. Three of
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