Tai Laing
Tai Laing is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in Myanmar, by about 100 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Tai Laing (Shan: တႆးလႅင်, lit. 'red Tai'; variously spelt Tai Leng or Tai Nine), also known as Shan-Ni (Burmese: ရှမ်းနီ, lit. 'red Shan'), is a Tai language of Burma, closely related to Khamti and Shan. It is written in its own variant of Burmese 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.
Alternate names for Tai Laing are Shan-Bamar, Shan Kalay, Myaybyan Shan, Tai Nine, Tai Dine and Tai Chaung.
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Words in Tai Laing
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kun* | |
| name | z37* | |
| eye | ta* | |
| ear | hu* | |
| nose | n3N* | |
| tooth | Su* | |
| tongue | liN* | |
| hand | m3* | |
| blood | l3t* | |
| bone | nup* | |
| knee | khou* | |
| liver | d3p* | |
| water | nom* | |
| fire | phei* | |
| sun | von* | |
| star | noN* | |
| stone | hin* | |
| mountain | noi* | |
| leaf | ph3* | |
| dog | mo* | |
| fish | po* | |
| louse | hou* | |
| one | လိူင် | |
| two | ꩬွꩼင် | |
| three | ꩬꩼၢမ် | |
| four | ꩬီ | |
| I | gou* | |
| you | me* | |
| we | ho* | |
| see | hon* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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