Tày language
| Tày | |
|---|---|
| Tho | |
| Native to | Vietnam |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (2009 census)[1] |
Kra–Dai
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tyz |
| Glottolog | tayy1238 |
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 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 (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wenma–Southwestern Tai". 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