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The Kam–Tai languages, also called Dong–Tai ( Chinese: 侗台语支) or Zhuang–Dong ( Chinese: 壮侗语族) in China, are a proposed primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family. However, since the 2000s in China, the names Dong–Tai ( Chinese: 侗台语支) and Zhuang–Dong ( Chinese: 壮侗语族) have been used to refer to the ...
The three last languages in Haudricourt's list of 'Tai proper' languages are Tho (Tày), Longzhou, and Nung, which Li classifies as 'Central Tai'. This classification scheme has long been accepted as standard in comparative Tai linguistics. However, Central Tai does not appear to be a monophyletic group.
Tai–Kadai" comes from an obsolete bifurcation of the family into two branches, Tai and Kadai, which had first been proposed by Paul K. Benedict (1942). In 1942, Benedict placed three Kra languages ( Gelao , Laqua ( Qabiao ), and Lachi ) together with Hlai in a group that he called "Kadai", from ka , meaning "person" in Gelao and Laqua and dai ...
Tai Dam is spoken in Vietnam, China, Laos, and Thailand. In central and western Thailand, it is known as Thai Song . Tai Dam speakers in China are classified as part of the Dai nationality along with almost all the other Tai peoples. But in Vietnam they are given their own nationality (with the White Tai) where they are classified (confusingly ...
Tai Daeng, Táy-Môc-Châu or Red Tai is the language of the Tai Daeng people of northwestern Vietnam and across the border into northeastern Laos. It belongs to the Tai language family , being closely connected with Black Tai and White Tai , as well as being more distantly related to the language spoken in modern Thailand .
Taï National Park is approximately 100 kilometers (62 mi) from the Ivorian coast on the border with Liberia between the Cavalla and Sassandra rivers. It covers an area of 3,300 square kilometers (1,300 sq mi) with a 200 square kilometers (77 sq mi) buffer zone up to 396 meters (1,299 ft). The Taï Forest reserve was created in 1926 and ...
Tai Lue ( New Tai Lü: ᦅᧄᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ, Tai Tham: ᨣᩴᩣᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᩃᩨ᩶, kam tai lue, [kâm.tâj.lɯ̀]) [a] or Xishuangbanna Dai is a Tai language of the Lu people, spoken by about 700,000 people in Southeast Asia. This includes 280,000 people in China ( Yunnan ), 200,000 in Burma, 134,000 in Laos, 83,000 in Thailand and 4,960 ...
Dalai Lama (UK: / ˈ d æ l aɪ ˈ l ɑː m ə /, US: / ˈ d ɑː l aɪ /; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.