Tày language

Not to be confused with Tho language or Tày Tac language.
Tày
Tho
Native to Vietnam
Native speakers
3 million (2016 census)[1]
Tai–Kadai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tyz
Glottolog tayy1238[3]

Tày or Tho (a name shared with Cuoi and with Zuojiang Zhuang of China) is the major Tai language of Vietnam, in the northeast near the Chinese border.

Varieties

Tày consists of,[4][5]

The Dai Zhuang varieties should perhaps be considered the same language.

References

  1. Tày at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wenma–Southwestern Tai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Edmondson, Jerold A., Solnit, David B. (eds). 1997. Comparative Kadai: the Tai branch. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 124. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
  5. http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/research/map.html

See also


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