Khamti language

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The Khamti language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Khamti people in parts of northeastern India and northern Myanmar, closely related to other Southwestern Tai languages like Thai and Lao.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khamti language canonical 2
Hkamti language 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
Tai–Kadai language
language
belongsToSubgroup Northern Southwestern Tai
closelyRelatedTo Lao language
Shan language
Thai language
country India
Myanmar
ethnicGroup Khamti people
geographicDistribution Northern Myanmar
surface form: Northeast India and Northern Myanmar
hasAlternativeName Khamti language
surface form: Hkamti language

Tai Hkamti
Khamti
surface form: Tai Khamti
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant initial clusters
contrastive tones
vowel length distinction
hasTone true
hasWritingSystem Tai Nüa script
surface form: Khamti script
ISO639-3Code kht
languageBranch Tai branch
languageFamily Tai–Kadai languages
surface form: Tai–Kadai language family
languageSubgroup Southwestern Tai
lexicalSimilarityWith Lao language
Shan language
Thai language
linguisticTypology analytic language
morphologicalType isolating language
primarySpeakers Khamti people
region Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
scriptType Brahmic script
sharesFeaturesWith Central Thai
Lao
Shan
spokenIn India
Myanmar
Northeast India
surface form: Northeastern India

Northern Myanmar
tonalLanguage true
usesScriptDerivedFrom Burmese script
wordOrder SVO
writingDirection left-to-right

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Referenced by (3)

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

Southwestern Tai hasMajorLanguage Khamti language
Tai Khamyang language relatedTo Khamti language
Khamti language hasAlternativeName Khamti language
this entity surface form: Hkamti language