Tai Lü leid

Tai Lü (or Tai Lue, Tai Le ; Xishuangbanna Dai; Cheenese: 傣仂语 Dǎilèyǔ; Thai: ภาษาไทลื้อ (phaasǎa thailéu); Vietnamese: Lự or Lữ) is a leid spoken bi aboot 670,000 fowk in Sootheast Asie. This includes 250,000 fowk in Cheenae, 200,000 in Burma, 134,000 in Thailand, an 5,000 in Vietnam. The leid is similar tae ither Tai leids.

In Vietnam, Tai Lü speakers are offeecially recognised as the Lự ethnic minority, although in Cheenae they are classified as pairt o the Dai fowk, alang wi speakers o the ither Tai leids (except Zhuang).

 Phonology 
Tai Lü haes 21 seellable-initial consonants, 91 seellable finals an sax tones (three different tones in checked seellables, sax in ither seellables).

 Initials 


The initials - an s- are palatalised afore i, e an  an become - an -, respectively.

 Finals 



 Tones 

There are sax tones for unchecked seellables, although ae three are alloued in checked seellables (those endin wi -p, -t or -k).

 Description  Contour  Transcription high  55  á mid  33  a (not marked) low  11  à falling  51  â high rising  35   low rising  13  

 Grammar 

Wird order is uisually Subject - Verb - Object; Modifiers (e.g. adjectives) follae nouns.

 Vocabulary 

Tai Lü haes mony loanwirds frae Pali, as well as frae the local Cheenese dialect an modren Staundart Cheenese.

 Numbers 

 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  100  10,000  100,000  1,000,000                            

 Writin seestems 

Tai Lü is written in twa different alphabets. The auld writin seestem wis reformed in the 1950s, but is still in uise an haes recently regained government support. The new alphabet is a simplified version o the auld script.

 Old Tai Lü 
Readable bi the maist fowk an uised in Burma, Laos, Thailand an Vietnam.

 New Tai Lü 

New Tai Lü is a modrenisation o the Lanna alphabet, similar tae the Thai alphabet, an consists o 42 initial consonant signs (21 hie-tone class, 21 law-tone class), seiven final consonant signs, 16 vowel signs, twa tone letters an ane vouel shortenin letter (or seellable-final glottal stop). Vouels signs can be placed afore or efter the seellable initial consonant.

Similar tae the Thai alphabet, the pronunciation o the tone o a seellable depends on the class the initial consonant belangs ta, seellable structure an vouel length, an the tone mark.

Unicode range ("New Tai Lue"): U+1980 – U+19DF

 See an aa 

 Tai Nüa leid
 Tai Pong leid
 Tai Dam leid

 References 

 Dāo Shìxūn 刀世勋: Dǎi-Hàn cídiǎn 傣汉词典 (Dai-Chinese Dictionary; Kūnmíng 昆明, Yúnnán mínzú chūbǎnshè 云南民族出版社 2002). This is a dictionary of Tai Lü in unreformed spelling.
 Yu Cuirong 喻翠荣, Luo Meizhen 罗美珍: Daile-Han cidian 傣仂汉词典 (Tai Lü - Chinese Dictionary; Beijing, Minzu chubanshe 2004).

Freemit airtins
 Lü, a leid o Cheenae 
 SeaSite: Tai Lue, unner construction 
 SIL Dai Banna Fonts
 Omniglot - Tai Lue script

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