Phai language

Phai
Prai
Thin
Native to Thailand, Laos
Ethnicity Phai people
Native speakers
80,000 (2000–2005)[1]
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 prt
Glottolog phai1238  (Phai)[2]
pray1239  (Pray 3)[3]

Prai (Phray) or Phai, also known as Thin (Theen, Htin) and Kha Sam Liam, is a Mon–Khmer language of Thailand and Laos. It is one of several closely related languages which go by the names Prai and Thin, and is sometimes distinguished as Pray 1; the Ban Wen dialect has been labeled Pray 3. (Pray 2 is the Lua' language.)

References

  1. Phai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Phai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pray 3". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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