Tai Laing language
| Tai Laing | |
|---|---|
| Tai Lai | |
| Tai Nai | |
| Native to | Burma |
| Region | Kengtung |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2010)[1] |
|
Tai–Kadai
| |
| Burmese script (historical) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tjl |
| Glottolog |
tail1248[2] |
Tai Laing, pronounced Tai Lai or regionally Tai Nai, is a Tai language of Burma, related to Khamti. It has its own script, and, though not taught in schools, is experiencing a cultural revival, albeit still small. There is no census of speakers, but they are estimated to number around 100,000.
References
- ↑ Tai Laing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tai Laing". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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