Khün
Khün is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, by about 120 thousand people.
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Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ, /taj˧˧.kʰɯːn˧˨˥/; Shan: တႆးၶိုၼ် Thai: ไทเขิน [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), also known as Kengtung Tai or Kengtung Shan, is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China.
The Khün varieties share 93% to 100% lexical similarity. Khun is closely related to other Tai languages. Khün shares 90% to 95% lexical similarity with Northern Thai language, 92% to 95% with Lü, 93% to 97% with Shan, and 80% to 83% with standard Thai.
Tai Khun is traditionally written using a variant of the Tai Tham script.
From Wikipedia · Khün language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
ᨾᨶᩩᩔ᩼ᨴ᩠ᨦᩢᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨿᨠᩮ᩠ᨯᩨᨾᩣᨾᩦᨻ᩠ᨦᩈᩁᩓᩢᨹ᩠ᨿ᩵ᨦᨻ᩠ᨿᨦᨠ᩠ᨶᩢ ᨶᩱᨠᩥᨲ᩠ᨲᩥᩈ᩠ᨠᩢ ᩓᩢᩈᩥᨴ᩠ᨵᩥ ᨲ᩵ᩣ᩠ᨦᨣᩳ᩶ᨣᩢᨾᩦᨾᨶᩮᩣᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ᩼ᩓᩢ ᨣ᩠ᩅᩁᨷᨭᩥᨷ᩠ᨲᩢᨲᩳ᩵ᨠ᩠ᨶᩢᨯᩢ᩠ᩅ᩠ᨿᨣ᩠ᩅᩣ᩠ᨾᨹ᩠ᨿ᩵ᨦᨻ᩠ᨿᨦᨠ᩠ᨶᩢ
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Khün
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | xon* | |
| name | T3* | |
| eye | ta* | |
| ear | hu* | |
| nose | laN* | |
| tooth | xiaw* | |
| tongue | lin* | |
| hand | m3* | |
| blood | ᩃᩮᩨ᩠ᨯ | |
| bone | luk* | |
| skin | naN* | |
| knee | khaw* | |
| breast | na7ok* | |
| liver | tap* | |
| water | nam* | |
| fire | phay* | |
| sun | tawan* | |
| star | law* | |
| stone | hin* | |
| mountain | loy* | |
| tree | tonmay* | |
| leaf | bamay* | |
| night | kaNkh3n* | |
| dog | ma* | |
| fish | pa* | |
| louse | haw* | |
| one | ᩑᨠ | |
| two | soN* | |
| I | xa* | |
| you | Taw* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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