sapa, language, sapa, tày, southwestern, language, lào, province, northern, vietnam, according, pittayaporn, 2009, glottolog, closest, relative, southwestern, languages, does, share, phonological, innovations, that, define, that, group, there, about, speakers,. Sapa or Tay Sa Pa is a Southwestern Tai language of Sa Pa Lao Cai Province northern Vietnam According to Pittayaporn 2009 and Glottolog it is the closest relative of the Southwestern Tai languages but does not share the phonological innovations that define that group There are about 300 speakers 2 Tay Sa Pa speakers are classified by the Vietnamese as ethnic Tay people most of whom speak Central Tai languages rather than Southwestern Tai languages According to Jerold Edmondson the phonology tones and lexicon of Tay Sa Pa is similar to that of Standard Thai SapaTay Sa PaNative toVietnamRegionSa PaEthnicityTayNative speakers300 2002 1 Language familyKra Dai TaiSouthwesternSapaWriting systemLatin Vietnamese alphabet Language codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code tys class extiw title iso639 3 tys tys a Glottologtays1238 A similar Southwestern Tai language called Padi pa zi is spoken in Mường Khương District Lao Cai Province northern Vietnam 2 References edit Sapa at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required a b Map amp Language Descriptions Borderlands Lesser Known Indigenous Languages of Northern Vietnam www uta edu Archived from the original on 2015 09 30 Sources editBui Quốc Khanh 2013 Tri thức dan gian trong canh tac cay lua nước của người Pa Di ở Lao Cai Nha xuất bản Thời Đại ISBN 978 604 930 596 2 Pittayaporn Pittayawat 2007 Tai dialects of Northern Vietnam Sapa Vinh Yen and Cao Bang Kra Dai This Kra Dai languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sapa language amp oldid 1151629599, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
