Tày language
| Tày | |
|---|---|
| Tho | |
| Native to | Vietnam |
Native speakers | 1.63 million (2009)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tyz |
| Glottolog |
tayy1238[2] |
Tày or Tho (a name shared with Cuoi and with various Zhuang languages of China) is the major Tai language of Vietnam, in the northeast near the Chinese border.
Varieties
Tày linguistic varieties include:[3][4]
- 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
- ↑ Tày at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/research/map.html
See also
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