Tai Laing language

Tai Laing
Tai Lai
Tai Nai
Native to Burma
Region Kengtung
Native speakers
100,000 (2010)[1]
Tai–Kadai
Burmese script (historical)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tjl
Glottolog tail1248[2]

Tai Laing, pronounced Tai Lai or regionally Tai Nai, is a Tai language of Burma, related to Khamti. It has its own script, and, though not taught in schools, is experiencing a cultural revival, albeit still small. There is no census of speakers, but they are estimated to number around 100,000.

References

  1. Tai Laing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tai Laing". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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