Tai is a family of related languages and dialects, a subgroup of the Tai-Kadai languages, spoken by more than 85 million speakers in southern China and Southeast Asia. Linguists and historians have traditionally used qualitative comparative-historical approach to study the Tai language, culture, ...
All of the contemporary Tai populations can be assigned to the south- western branch of the Tai language (http://www.ethnologue.com/)2 that belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family. Considering their language similarities with the other Tai-Kadai populations, it is now widely accepted that ...
“Rice” as it is spoken across the Tai-Kadai region: Sui ‘au vs. Lao khaw Table: The word “Rice” Spoken in Different Languages and Location Note: See Figure 4 for a tree diagram of the language group. The language are sorted in the order of decreasing similarity to the proto...