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Tai Lü can be written as Tai Lue, Dai Le and Dai Lue. They are also known as Xishuangbanna Dai, Sipsongpanna Tailurian and Tai Sipsongpanna. The word Lue ( Thai : เหนือ Tai Lue: ᦟᦹᧉ) in the Tai languages means "north", thus their ethnonym means Northern Tai which they share with Tai Nua people .
Tai Lue has 95% lexical similarity with Northern Thai (Lanna), 86% with Central Thai, 93% with Shan, and 95% with Khun. [1] Below, some Thai Lue words are given with standard Central Thai equivalents for comparison. Thai words are shown on the left and Tai Lue words, written in New Tai Lue script, are shown on the right.
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.
New Tai Lue script, also known as Xishuangbanna Dai [4] and Simplified Tai Lue (Tai Lue: ᦟᦲᧅᦷᦎᦺᦑᦟᦹᧉ), is an abugida used to write the Tai Lue language. Developed in China in the 1950s, New Tai Lue is based on the traditional Tai Tham alphabet developed c. 1200 . [ 5 ]
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 ...
Like in other Tai societies, the core social units of the Tai Dam, Tai Dón and Tai Daeng were the village (ban) and the chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a feudal lord (chao). Their base of life was wet rice cultivation, which is why the Tai settled in valleys alongside the course of rivers.
Tai Aiton people; Tai Bueng; Tai Daeng people; Tai Dam people; Tai Dón people; Tai Lue people; Tai Nua people; Tày people; Thai people; Thái people (Vietnam) Tip Htila; Tòng Thị Phóng; Turung people
Tai Doi ('mountain people') – 230 people (54 families) as of 1995 in Long District of Luang Namtha, Laos. Their language is likely Palaungic. Tai Gapong ('brainy Tai') – 3,200+ people; at least 2,000 people (500+ households) in Ban Varit, Waritchapum District, Sakhon Nakhon Province; also live with the Phutai and Yoy. The Tai Gapong claim ...