Tai languages

Kam - Tai is a subset of the spread in Southeast Asia Tai - Kadai languages. It includes 58 individual languages ​​, and in turn is subdivided into four branches.

The languages ​​with the most speakers within the Tai - Kadai family are part of the Kam -Tai branch, as the most important and most meaningful Tai - Kadai language, the Thai, the official language of the Kingdom of Thailand. In addition, include the official language of Laos, the Laotian, Burmese language of the Shan and Zhuang, which is spoken in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi to the Tai languages.

Classification of the Kam - Tai languages ​​in the Tai - Kadai languages

Tai - Kadai ( a total of 69 languages ​​, 83 million speakers)

• Hlai (2 languages ​​, 800,000 )
• Kadai ( 9 languages ​​, 95,000 )
• Kam -Tai (58 Languages ​​, 82 million) Kam - Sui ( 8 languages ​​, 3 million)
• Lakkia (1 language, 10,000 )
• Ong - Be ( 1 language, 500,000 )
• Tai ( 48 Languages ​​, 78 million) North - Tai ( 5 languages, 12 million)
• Central Tai ( 6 languages ​​, 6 million)
• Southwest Tai (30 Languages ​​, 60 million)

Spoken languages

Northern Taisprachen

• Zhuang ( North ) (China ), 10 million speakers E ( China), 30,000 - mixed language from northern Zhuang, Kam - Sui and Chinese languages

Central Taisprachen

• Zhuang ( South ) (China), 4.8 million speakers
• Tay ( Tho ) ( Vietnam), 1.5 million
• Drying (Vietnam), 850,000
• Ts'ün - Lao ( Vietnam), 10,000
• Otes (Vietnam)

Southwest Taisprachen (32 )

• ( Central ) Thai (Thailand ), 20 million speakers
• Lanna (also: Northern Thai, Tai Yuan) (Thailand, Laos), 6 million
• Tai Dam (Vietnam, Laos), 800,000
• Don Tai (Vietnam, Laos), 500,000
• Phuan (Thailand, Laos), 300,000
• Tai Daeng (Vietnam, Laos), 165,000
• Thai Song ( Thailand), 30,000
• Tai Hang Tong (Vietnam), 10,000
• Thu Lao ( Vietnam ), 200
• Tay Tac (Vietnam)

Lao- Phutai languages ​​( 4)

• Isan ( Northeastern Thai ) (Thailand, Laos ), 15 million speakers
• Lao (Laos ), 3 million
• Phu Thai (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos), 800,000
• Nyaw (Thailand), 50,000

Northwestern Taisprachen (9 )

• Shan ( Burma), 3.3 million
• Lu ( Lue, Tai Lue ) (China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Burma), 700,000
• Tai Nuea (China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos), 650,000
• Khuen ( Burma), 120,000
• Khamti ( Assam, Burma), 13,000
• Phakic ( Assam ), 5000
• Aiton ( Assam ), 1500
• Khamyang ( Assam ), 50
• Ahom ( Assam - extinct; modern Assamese language is Indo- European. )

Other southwestern Taisprachen

• Southern Thai (Thailand), 4.5 million
• Hongjin Tai (China), 85,000
• Ya Tai (China), 50,000
• Tai Thanh (Vietnam), 20,000
• Yong ( Thailand), 13,000
• Tai Long ( Laos), 4800
• Pa Di (China, Vietnam), 1300
• Tay Sa Pa (Vietnam ), 300
• Ko Pu (Laos )
• Turung (India)