… two groups, P and PH, and that the languages of Sukhothai, Southern Thai, and Lao form …
languages of Li form only one branch but to date we lack data from the Tai languages spoken …

… ), and Saek (25,000), a misplaced Northern Tai language, and many more 'displaced'
languages. Thailand is one of the two countries that use a Tai language as the national language. …

… and postgraduates of linguistics and language, or those with an … and language development.
With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language …

… ), the Yay language in Vietnam, and Saek, a Northern Tai language in Laos and Thailand …
from other Tai languages. The total number of native speakers of Tai languages is probably …

… This paper reports on the themes and variations in the northern tier of SW Tai languages …
tier of SW Tai was used in Edmondson and Solnit 1997 to describe those languages whose …

… languages and, maybe, Tai languages as well. Sincc Czmadevi appears to have bee11 a
Mon, why is she important to the Tai … 1 bclicve it is because tllosc Tai who conipiled the earliest …

… that Proto-Tai was monosyllabic, this thesis claims that Proto-Tai was a sesquisyllabic
language that … Many of these Proto-Tai traits are not attested in modern Tai languages. The …

… and the various Tai groups, surrounded by hostile Chinese … were undoubtedly the reason
for the Tai exodus to the west." … , where all of the Tai languages have developed unaspirated …

… in three modern sub-branches of Tai languages distributed in Southern China and some …
implies, Tai speaking groups generally speak Tai languages as their first language. The …

… Relative gradation, our main interest in this paper, manifests itself in the Tai languages …
the Tai languages, while the configurational means is employed only in a few Tai languages…