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	Encyclopedia: Lao language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is a tonal language of the Tai family, and is so closely related to the Isan language of the northeast region of Thailand that the two are often classed as one language.
		Isan (or Isaan or Esarn) is the language of the Isan region of Thailand.
		The official and dominant language is Lao, a tonal language of the Tai linguistic group.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lao-language (1016 words)

	Tai-Kadai Language Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today, languages belonging to the Tai-Kadai language family are spoken in Southeast Asia in an area extending from Thailand into Laos, Vietnam, China, Burma, and India.
		The spelling 'Tai' is used to avoid confusion with Thai (Siamese), the largest language of the family.
		These languages were originally thought by some scholars to be part of the Sino-Tibetan family, and by other scholars as part of the Austronesian family.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/TaiKadaiLanguageFamily.html (498 words)

	The relationship of Tai languages to other language families (from Tai languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The closest relatives of the Tai languages are the Kam-Sui languages, spoken in Kweichow, China; and the languages Be (Hainan Island) and Lakkia (Kwangsi, China).
		language spoken in the northern and eastern states of Myanmar (Burma) and belonging to the Southwestern group of the Tai language family of Southeast Asia.
		A language family that covers a broad geographical region and a vast historical period, the Semitic language group is part of an even larger language family known as Afro-Asiatic, or Hamito-Semitic.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-75055?tocId=75055 (732 words)

	About Thai language
		It is language taught and used in the schools, the ones used by the media and the one used for government affairs.
		Outside Bangkok and the central plains, other dialects and languages of the Tai family coexist with the standard : Northern Thai(Kam Muang or Yuan) in the north, Southern Thai in the South and Lao or Northeastern Thai in the northeast.
		Still other Tai languages such as Lue, Phuthai and Phuan are spoken as small speech islands in various parts of the country.
	www.tu.ac.th /host/thaiarc/thai/thai.htm (1149 words)

	Thailand - The Thai and Other Tai-Speaking Peoples
		The core Thai--the Central Thai, the Northeastern Thai (Thai-Lao), the Northern Thai, and the Southern Thai--spoke dialects of one of the languages of the Tai language family.
		Speakers of the Tai language of Kham Mu'ang (known as Yuan in its written form) made up the majority of the population of the 9 northernmost provinces from the Burmese-Lao border down through the province of Uttaradit, an area of about 102,000 square kilometers.
		Whereas all other Tai languages spoken in Thailand belonged to the southwestern branch of the family, that spoken by the Saek belonged to the northern branch, suggesting a more recent arrival from China.
	countrystudies.us /thailand/42.htm (1648 words)

	Unit 7 - The Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai language families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It consists of a highly differentiated group of languages with a vast geographical spread, great linguistic complexity, and a long historical record...
		- Burmese belongs to the Lolo-Burmese sub-branch of of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family...
		- The Tibetan language is a member of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family....
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may (211 words)

	Golden Eagle Martial Arts Centers - Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) is an ancient Chinese martial art well known for its superior health benefits and high level of effectiveness in combat.
		Tai Chi forms are performed slowly and in a relaxed manner, which has the benefit of calming the mind and releasing the mental and physical tensions that our modern stressful lifestyles can produce.
		As a martial art, Tai Chi Chuan is unsurpassed; using the theory of "four ounces of strength defeating one ton of force," one can repel an opponent without resorting to force against force.
	goldeneaglemac.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=17 (290 words)

	Lao language: General Facts
		The languages in the Tai family all share a common grammar and tone structure.
		The languages are basically the same but have some differences between them which developed because of historical differences between the Isan area and Laos.
		They were taken mainly from Sanskrit, the classical language of India, and are often the same as or similar to high-level vocabulary in Thai.
	www.thailao.net /laofacts.htm (908 words)

	PaiboonPublishing.com - Origins of Thai language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today the Tai family includes language spoken in Assam, northern Burma, all of Thailand including the peninsula, Laos, northern Vietnam and the Chinese provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou (Kweichow) and Guangxi (Kwangsi).
		It is the language taught and used in the schools, the same language used by the media and in government affairs.
		Outside Bangkok and the central plains, other dialects and languages of the Tai family coexist with the standard : Northern Thai (Kam Muang or Yuan) in the North, Southern Thai in the South and Lao or Northeastern Thai in the Northeast.
	www.paiboonpublishing.com /misc/origin.html (1148 words)

	STEDT: The Sino-Tibetan Family
		Thus, the 20,000 speakers of a certain language of Nagaland call themselves and their language Memi (and used to call themselves Imemai), but they and their language are now known to outsiders either as Mao, or as Sopvoma (the name of their principal village).
		A further complication is the fact that many language names are used in both a narrower and a broader sense, sometimes referring to one specific language, but often to a whole group of linguistically or culturally related languages.
		Ersu/Tosu is perhaps an indirect descendant of the extinct Xixia (=Hsi-hsia=Tangut) language, spoken in a once-powerful empire in the Tibetan-Chinese-Uighur border regions, finally destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th c.
	stedt.berkeley.edu /html/STfamily.html (3045 words)

	Additional Reading (from Tai languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In such societies written language is the chief means of transmitting culture and the benefits of civilization...
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
		Suggests activities to raise awareness of the practical importance of foreign language skills in a global society.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-75067?tocId=75067 (935 words)

	Tai Lue (Dai) People Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The languages (or dialects) spoken by the Dehong Dai people segments, although somewhat mutually intelligible, are quite distinct from those spoken by the Sipsongpanna Dai people segments.
		Tai Lue is a sanskrit script with Burmese influence, having originally come into Sipsongpanna with the arrival of Theravada Buddhism.
		Chinese scholars commonly hold that the Dai language and its dialects is a sub-branch of the Zhuang-Dong (Kam-Tai) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.
	www.infomekong.com /tai_lue_secondary.htm (1428 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Black Tai live along the upper reaches of the Black River, which is located in the Yunnan province of south central China.
		The Black Tai and their neighbors, the White Tai, were named for the color of the blouses worn by their women.
		Ninety-eight percent of the Black Tai practice "folk animism." (Animism is the belief that inanimate objects have souls.) They are also known for ancestor worship, which is the belief that the spirits of deceased ancestors are alive and need to be fed and cared for.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code/2065.html (769 words)

	Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) — The Tai Of The Shan State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Tai Ahom, by moving across the mountains to Assam and by gradually adopting the Indian culture of the region into which they had moved, are slowly losing their identity as Tai.
		The language is monosyllabic and tonal: the meaning of each word varies according to the tone, "dah" for instance has five tones, each tone meaning a different thing.
		The Tai peoples still have many words in common and, although changes in dialect and accents over the years have contributed to their divergence, there still is some degree of mutual understanding among speakers of Thai, Yuon, Lao, Shan and Dtai in Yunnan and Southern China.
	www.shanland.org /resources/history/Publications/tai_of_the_shan_state.htm (8100 words)

	Saek History Summary
		Saek is a member of the Tai family of languages, which are spoken across a wide area of northern Southeast Asia, from northern Vietnam and Southern China in the east to Assam in the west.
		This is because it belongs to the northern branch of Tai languages, spoken mainly in southern China, unlike the majority of Tai languages in Thailand and Laos, which belong to the southwestern branch of the family.
		Possible theories are that it is evidence of contact with Mon-Khmer languages, such as Cambodian, which do have final l, that it is preserving an otherwise lost feature of Proto-Tai, the parent language of all present-day Tai languages, or that it reflects some wider affiliation between the Tai and Malayo-Polynesian languages.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/saek-ema-05 (618 words)

	Tai
		“The Tai language as spoken by the Tai-Phake.
		Barua, B. “Influence of the Tai-Ahom on Assamese Language.” Lik Phān Tai (Journal of the Tai Historical and Cultural Association of Assam).
		Needham, J.F. Outline Grammar of the Khâmtî Language - as spoken by the Khâmtîs residing in the neighbourhood of Sadiya.
	www.southasiabibliography.de /Bibliography/Tai/tai.html (724 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
		The Black Tai are widely scattered throughout Central and Southern Thailand in Nongkhai, Korat, Loei, and Saraburi.
		The Black Tai, together with the White Tai, were named for the color of their women's blouses.
		Their language can be partially understood by the White Tai, and those who have had prolonged contact with both groups become bilingual; however, each group has a distinct writing system.
	www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code/371.html (823 words)

	Tai Dam alphabet
		The origins of the Tai Dam alphabet are unknown.
		Each consonant letter has a high and low form, which combined with the presence or absence of the two tones marks, is used to indicate the six tones of the Tai Dam language.
		Tai Dam, or Black Tai/Tai Noir, a Tai-Kadai language closely related to Lao and Thai which is spoken by around half a million people in north-western Vietnam and northern Laos.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/taidam.htm (189 words)

	languagehat.com: Comment on TAI VS THAI 2.
		I'm not up (at all) on the literature of SE Asian languages, really, so perhaps his theory is now out of date, but the article is one of my favorite in linguistics.
		(Sorry, I'm not a linguist.) I believe the Tai group of language to be an old spoken language shared by a migratory group of people, (not nomads however, one thing they all have in common is that they all grew rice),and written forms were developed only recently like some 500-700 years ago.
		The Tai speaking people of Burma then have a different script, I think, the Tai people in Laos, use a script similar to Thai.
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=920 (1568 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Central Tai are distinguished by a near absence of labor division by sex.
		The wealthiest Tai live in wood-framed homes that are raised off the ground and have plank floors, hard wood or mahogany panels, and tile roofs.
		The Northern Tai of Thailand; The Northeastern Tai of Thailand; The Southern Tai of Thailand; and
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code2/1270.html (758 words)

	Tai Lue (Dai) People subgroups' profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The temple wat complex is usually situated at the highest point in the village, with the homes of the village arranged an a pattern around it and lower on the hillside.
		The Han Tai are found mostly in the Meng Yang area north of the prefectural capital city of Jing Hong.
		Neither they or the Han Tai are as prosperous as the Tai Lue, since the Tai Lue dominate the lowland wet rice farming.
	www.infomekong.com /p_group_TaiLue_3.htm (475 words)

	Tai languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		TAI is also an abbreviation for International Atomic Time
		Lü (Lue, Tai Lue) (China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar)
		This page was last modified 09:15, 26 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tai_language (112 words)

	SIL Tai Dam Fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The SIL Tai Dam Fonts are regular and bold versions of the traditional Tai Dam script and are closely based on handwritten letters.
		Their language is a member of the Tai-Kadai language family and is closely related to Laotian and Standard Thai.
		The Tai Dam have a long tradition of literacy in the script rendered by the TaiHeritage font family.
	scripts.sil.org /cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILTD_home&_sc=1 (330 words)

	Tai Dehong Language and Culture
		The purpose of this Tai Dehong/Neua website it to provide some basic information and authentic texts dealing with this important Tai language spoken in the northwestern part of Yunnan province in China.
		To the south and west of the prefecture lies Burma, where the Tai population are known as Shan.
		For additional information on Tai Dehong, an excellent article entitled "Reflections on Tai Dehong Society from Language Point of View" appears in Journal of Language and Linguistics:18.2 (Jan.- June 2000) pp.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Tai/TaiDehong/overview.htm (362 words)

	Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept NaturalLanguage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim
		Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
		a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
	icosym-nt.cvut.cz /kifb/wordnet/_natural_language.html (4976 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.1289: Edmonson & Solnit: Comparative Kadai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Introduction, the most recent theories regarding the relationships of Tai and postulated Tai-related languages are discussed, and a brief history of comparative historical studies of the Tai branch is presented.
		After a comprehensive bibliography (7 pp.), which will be greatly useful to all those interested in any of the related languages of this family, we find a series of six maps to facilitate locating the various languages proposed to be members of the family.
		Under the heading "Cited Forms", and organized by individual languages, we have a handy listing of the English equivalents of Tai words discussed and the page on which they are mentioned.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/8/8-1289.html (582 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:tyz
		There is also now another official nationality in Viet Nam, now called the 'Tho', which is a Viet-Muong language family group, not a Tai-based language group.
		The syntax of Tho, a Tai language of Vietnam.
		Ross, Peter A. "Dao Ngan Tay: a B-language in Vietnam."
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=tyz (184 words)

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		R (1991) The Efficacy of the P/PH Distinction for Tai Languages.
		In Shin Ja J. Hwang; William R. Merrifield (eds.), Language in context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre, Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 107.
		Proceedings of the Conference on Tai Languages and Cultures In Honor of the Sixth Cycle of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana.
	crcl.th.net /bib/by-date.htm (12353 words)

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