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The Kam or Gam language (lix Gaeml), also known as Dong (Chinese: 侗语; pinyin: Dòngyǔ), is a Kam–Sui language spoken by the Dong people. Ethnologue distinguishes three Kam varieties as separate but closely related languages.
Tai Dam (simplified Chinese: 傣担语; traditional Chinese: 傣擔語; pinyin: Dǎidānyǔ), also known as Black Tai (Thai: ภาษาไทดำ; pronounced [pʰāː sǎː tʰāj dām]; Vietnamese: tiếng Thái Đen; 'Black Tai language'; simplified Chinese: 黑傣语; traditional Chinese: 黑傣語; pinyin: Hēidǎiyǔ), is a Tai language spoken by the Tai Dam in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand ...
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages.There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Lao, Tai Ahom, Tai Kassay and some Northern Thai peoples.
Some of the Sán Chay speak Cao Lan, a Tai-Kadai language while some of them speak Pạc và (Chinese: 白话), another name of Pinghua. According to 2009 census, there are 18,444 ethnic Hoa in Bắc Giang province, the majority of them living in Lục Ngạn district. However, some ethnic Hoa identify themselves as Nùng or Sán Chay. [312]
A great majority of people in Taiwan can speak both Mandarin and Hokkien, but the degree of fluency varies widely. [35] There are, however, small but significant numbers of people in Taiwan, mainly but not exclusively Hakka and Mainlanders, who cannot speak Taiwanese fluently. A shrinking percentage of the population, mainly people born before ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his inauguration next month in Washington, a Trump transition ...
Tʻ ai 2-wan 1 Tai 2-yü 3 Lo 2-ma 3-tzu 4 P ʻ in 1-in 1 Fang 1-an 4: Tongyong Pinyin: Táiwan Tái-yǔ Luó-mǎ-zìh Pin-yin Fang-àn: MPS2: Táiwān Táiyǔ Luómǎtz̀ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn: IPA [tʰǎɪ.wán tʰǎɪ.ỳ pʰín.ín fáŋ.ân] Hakka; Romanization: Thòi-vàn Thòi-ngî Lò-mâ-sṳ Piang-yîm Fông-on: Yue: Cantonese ...
Lí 2SG 去 khì go 買 bué buy 有 ū have 錶仔 pió-á watch 無？ --bô? no 汝 去 買 有 錶仔 無？ Lí khì bué ū pió-á --bô? 2SG go buy have watch no "Did you go to buy a watch?" As in many east Asian languages, classifiers are required when using numerals, demonstratives and similar quantifiers. Choice of grammatical function words also varies significantly among the ...