Tai Lü

E1038460

Tai Lü is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Lü people in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tai Lü canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
tonal language
closelyRelatedTo Lao language
linked to: Lao

Northern Thai language
Shan language
countryStatus recognized minority language in China
family Tai–Kadai language family
glottologCode tail1248
glottologName Tai Lue
hasAlternativeName Dai Lue
Tai Lue
Xishuangbanna Dai
hasNativeAutonym ᦅᧄᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ (in New Tai Lue script)
linked to: New Tai Lue script
hasWritingSystem Lao script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

New Tai Lue script
Old Tai Lue script
Thai script
iso639-3Code khb
languageOf Sipsongpanna
linguisticTypology analytic language
majorDialectArea Xishuangbanna
numberOfTones 6 (in many dialects)
phonologicalFeature complex tone system
contrastive vowel length
primaryCountry China
region Eastern Myanmar
linked to: eastern Myanmar

Northern Laos
linked to: Laos highlands

Northern Thailand
linked to: northern Thailand

Northwestern Vietnam
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Tai Lü people
linked to: Tai Nüa people
spokenIn China
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
subfamily Tai branch
subgroup Southwestern Tai
usedFor religious texts in Theravada Buddhist context (historically)
usedIn traditional literature of Tai Lü people
uses Tai Tham script (historically, in some contexts)
linked to: Tai Tham script
usesNumeralSystem Tai Lü numerals
writingReform New Tai Lue script standardized in 20th century
writingSystemType abugida

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tai hasMemberLanguage Tai Lü
Tai Ya closelyRelatedTo Tai Lü
Lana scriptUsageLanguage Tai Lü