Ethnologue distinguishes the following languages:[1]
Saek (Laos and northeast Thailand; listed outside Tai proper in the Ethnologue classification, though said to be similar to Tai Maen, which is listed as Northern Tai)
Longsang Zhuang, a recently described Northern Tai language, is spoken Longsang Township, Debao County, Guangxi, China. Hezhang Buyi is a moribund Northern Tai language of northwestern Guizhou that is notable for having a Kra substratum.
Pittayaporn (2009)Edit
Pittayaporn (2009:300) distinguishes a similar group of Zhuang varieties as group "N", defined by the phonological shifts *ɯj, *ɯw → *aj, *aw.[3] He moves the prestige dialect of Zhuang, the Wuming dialect, from the Northern Tai Yongbei Zhuang to Yongnan Zhuang – purportedly Central Tai – as it lacks these shifts. The various languages and localities Pittayaporn includes in group N, along with their Ethnologue equivalents, are:
Some examples of lexical and phonological differences between Northern Tai and Central-Southwestern Tai:[4]
Gloss
p-North Tai
p-Central Tai
p-Southwest Tai
‘tiger’
*kuːk
*sɯə
*sɯə
‘thorn’
*ʔon
*n̥aːm
*n̥aːm
‘crow’
*ʔaː
*kaː
*kaː
‘steam, vapor’
*soːj
*ʔjaːj
*ʔaːj
‘to tear’
*siːk
*cʰiːk
*cʰiːk
‘knife’
*mit
*miːt
*miːt
ReferencesEdit
^. Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
^Pittayaporn classified Yoy as Southwestern Tai, but does not provide supporting analysis.
^Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009). The Phonology of Proto-Tai (Ph.D. thesis). Cornell University. hdl:1813/13855.
^Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages". In Sidwell, Paul; Jenny, Mathias (eds.). The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 225–246. doi:10.1515/9783110558142-013. ISBN978-3-11-055814-2.
October 21, 2023
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