Tày language

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Tày
Tho
Native to Vietnam
Native speakers
1.6 million (2009 census)[1]
Tai–Kadai
  • Tai
    • Zuojiang–Southwest
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tyz
Glottolog tayy1238[3]

Tày or Thô (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]

  • Tày Bảo Lạc is spoken in Bảo Lạc District, western Cao Bang province.
  • Tày Trùng Khánh is spoken in Trùng Khánh District, northeastern Cao Bang province.

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

References

  1. Tày at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  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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