Black Tai language

E483333

The Black Tai language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Dam (Black Tai) people in parts of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Black Tai language canonical 6
Tay language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kra–Dai language
Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
associatedWithCulture Tai Dam culture
closelyRelatedTo Red Tai language
White Tai language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Black Tai
Tai Dam language
Tai Noir
Tai Đen
hasEthnicAssociation Tai Dam
hasGlottocode blac1239
hasHistoricalInfluenceFrom Lao language
linked to: Lao

Thai language
hasISO6393Code blt
hasLinguasphereCode 45-GEB-d
hasLoanwordsFrom Lao
Thai
Vietnamese
hasMorphologicalType analytic
hasNumberOfSpeakersApprox hundreds of thousands
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tonal contrasts
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language
hasStandardizedScript Tai Viet script
hasToneSystem yes
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith White Tai language
isUsedFor oral storytelling
ritual texts
traditional literature
languageFamily Kra–Dai family
Tai branch
region Mainland Southeast Asia
spokenBy Tai Dam people
spokenIn China
Laos
Thailand
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam

Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province

northern Laos
northern Thailand
northwest Vietnam
subgroupOf Southwestern Tai
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Lao script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tai Viet script
Thai script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

T’ai Federation language Black Tai language
Pac Bo languageOfToponym Tay language
subject linked to: Pac Bo, Cao Bang, Vietnam
linked to: Black Tai language
Tai Dam language hasAlternativeName Black Tai language
Black Tai ethnicLanguage Black Tai language
Tai Dón language relatedTo Black Tai language
Northwestern Tai languages hasMember Black Tai language
Laha language neighboringLanguages Black Tai language