Tai Aiton language

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The Tai Aiton language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken by the Tai Aiton ethnic community in northeastern India, particularly in Assam.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tai Aiton language canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
endangered language
tonal language
alternativeName Aiton
Tai Itong
associatedReligion Theravada
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
closelyRelatedTo Khamti language
Shan language
Tai Phake language
continent Asia
country India
ethnicGroup Tai Aiton
grammarFeature little inflectional morphology
hasFeature SVO basic word order
classifier system
tone distinctions
hasSpeakersIn Dibrugarh district
Sivasagar
surface form: Sivasagar district

Tinsukia district
ISO639Status has no ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Tai–Kadai languages
surface form: Tai–Kadai language family
lexicalInfluenceFrom Assamese
Pali (religious vocabulary)
morphologicalType analytic language
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone-bearing syllables
preservationEfforts community-based language revitalization
documentation by linguists
region Northeastern India
Upper Assam
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
scriptType abugida
spokenBy Tai Aiton people
spokenIn Assam
India
status moribund
subfamily Tai branch
subgroup Southwestern Tai subgroup
threatenedBy language shift to Assamese
language shift to English
language shift to Hindi
usedIn Buddhist liturgy
oral literature
religious ceremonies
traditional rituals
writingSystem Tai Aiton script

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Referenced by (2)

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

Southwestern Tai hasMajorLanguage Tai Aiton language
Tai Khamyang language relatedTo Tai Aiton language