Tai Nüa language

E896057

The Tai Nüa language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken primarily by the Tai Nüa people in parts of China and Southeast Asia, closely related to other Tai languages such as Thai and Lao.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khün language 1
Tai Nüa language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf SVO language
Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
tonal language
alsoKnownAs Dehong Dai language NERFINISHED
Tai Dew
Tai Mau NERFINISHED
Tai Neua NERFINISHED
autonym Tai Nüa NERFINISHED
basicWordOrder subject–verb–object
closelyRelatedTo Lao language NERFINISHED
Shan language NERFINISHED
Tai Lü language NERFINISHED
Thai language
endangermentStatus regional minority language
family Tai branch
grammaticalFeature lack of inflectional morphology
use of particles for aspect and mood
hasTone multiple lexical tones
hasWritingSystem Chinese characters (limited use)
New Tai Lue script NERFINISHED
Tai Nüa script NERFINISHED
influencedBy Chinese language (lexicon and loanwords)
ISO639-3Code tdd
languageFamily Kra–Dai language family NERFINISHED
morphologicalType analytic language
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
final stop consonants
region Mainland Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
Southwestern China NERFINISHED
scriptType abugida
sharesFeaturesWith other Southwestern Tai languages
spokenBy Tai Nüa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn China
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture NERFINISHED
Laos NERFINISHED
Myanmar NERFINISHED
Northern Southeast Asia
Thailand NERFINISHED
Vietnam NERFINISHED
Yunnan province NERFINISHED
subfamily Southwestern Tai NERFINISHED
subgroup Northern Thai–Lü group NERFINISHED
usedFor oral tradition and folk literature
usedIn local education in some Tai Nüa communities
usesClassifierSystem yes

Referenced by (2)

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

Tai languages hasMajorLanguage Tai Nüa language
Tai Khün language Tai Nüa language
this entity surface form: Khün language