Yong
Yong is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in Thailand. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Yong (Nyong) is a Southwestern Tai language of Thailand. It is used by Tai Yong people, who are descended from Tai Lue people from Xishuangbanna, China and Kengtung, Myanmar. Ethnologue reports that Yong is phonologically similar to the Tai Lue language. Most Yong speakers are multilingual and speak Northern Thai and Standard Thai. There were 12,600 speakers as of 2000.
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Words in Yong
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kun* | |
| name | T3* | |
| eye | ta* | |
| ear | hu* | |
| nose | hudaN* | |
| tooth | khew* | |
| tongue | phasa* | |
| hand | tEm* | |
| blood | l3t* | |
| skin | naN* | |
| breast | 7ok* | |
| liver | tap* | |
| water | nam* | |
| fire | fay* | |
| sun | tawan* | |
| star | daw* | |
| stone | hin* | |
| tree | komay* | |
| leaf | bay* | |
| night | kh3n* | |
| dog | ma* | |
| fish | pa* | |
| louse | haw* | |
| one | n3N* | |
| two | soN* | |
| I | ha* | |
| you | khiN* | |
| we | muhaw* | |
| see | han* | |
| die | tay* |
* 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
Glottolog · yong1277 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · yno