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Manji Cult, appeared in the 1998 PS1 video game Tenchu: Stealth Assassins; Manji, an organization in the Soulcalibur game series; Manji, a character in the role-playing game MapleStory; Manji, the main character of the manga series Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura; Tokyo Manji Gang, the main group from the manga series Tokyo Revengers by ...
The scholar Ferlus classifies the Lai Tay script as a part of the Khmer family of writing systems, which the scholar divides into two groups: the central scripts consisting of the ancient Sukhothai and Fakkham scripts, which developed into the modern Thai and Lao scripts, and the peripheral scripts of the Tai peoples of Vietnam, which include ...
At the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 meeting on April 24, 2007, a revised proposal [7] for the script, now known as Tai Viet, was accepted "as is", with support [13] from TCVN, the Vietnam Quality & Standards Centre. Tai Viet was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2. The Unicode block for Tai Viet is U+AA80–U ...
The Tai Dam and the Tai Don mostly live in the provinces of the Northwestern Plateau: Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Sơn La and Hoà Bình. The Tai Daeng are found in western part of Nghệ An and Thanh Hóa province where they are a major ethnic group. According to the 1999 General Survey, there were 1,328,725 Thái people in Vietnam. [5] In Sơn ...
Sip Song Chau Tai is a Tai Lü compound consisting of sibsong "twelve" and chu "master". It is a cognate to Thai สิบสองจุไท, and may be translated in English as "Twelve Tai Kingdoms" or "Chiefdoms", according to relative standing in the Southeast Asian mandala political model, in allusion to either a Chief of the Name or a tribal chief.
In Vietnam they are called Tai Dón or Thái Trắng and are included in the group of the Tái peoples, together with the Thái Đen ("Black Tai"), Thái Đỏ ("Red Tai"), Phu Thai, Tày Thanh and Thái Hàng Tổng. The group of the Tái people is the third largest of the fifty-four ethnic groups recognized by the Vietnamese government.
In 1948, the French colonial administration declared the Tai Federation (French: Fédération Thaï, native name: Phen Din Tai, Vietnamese: Khu tự trị Thái; by that time consisting of 19 Tai states in then three Vietnamese provinces of Lai Châu, Sơn La and Phong Thổ) to be an independent component of the French Union.
Lai Châu town square in 2006. Lai Châu, or Muang Lay (Vietnamese: Mường Lay) was the seat of lords of the White Tai who were dominant over other Thai peoples of the area, though there was rivalry between the White Tai rulers of Muang Lay and Muang So. [2]