Thai languages ​​- Thai (English)

Japanese: タイ諸語 - タイしょご(英語表記)Tai languages
Thai languages ​​- Thai (English)
A family of related languages ​​found in Thailand, Laos, the Malay Peninsula, southern China, the highlands of northern Vietnam, Assam in India, and the Shan region of Myanmar. Together they have a combined total of more than 64 million speakers. They are divided into four major dialect groups. The main languages ​​are Thai (Siamese), Lao (Lao), Yuan (Northern Thai), and Southern Thai in the south; Shan, Lu, Khun, and Khamti of Assam in the west; Black Thai, White Thai, Toh, and Nung in the east (Tonkin); and Zhuang (Zhuang), Phui (Middle), and sometimes Li (Vietnamese) in Hainan in the north (China). All are mainly monosyllabic, isolating, and fairly homogeneous except for differences in the number of tones and vocabulary. These are closely related to the Kham, Sui, and Mak languages, which are centered in Guizhou Province in China, but their cognate relationships with Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese have not yet been established.

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Japanese:
タイ,ラオス,マレー半島,中国南部,ベトナム北部の高地,インドのアッサム州,ミャンマーのシャン地方などに広く分布している同系の諸言語。合せて 6400万人以上の話し手をもつ。地理的に大きく4つの方言群に分れる。それぞれのおもな言語は,南ではタイ語 (シャム語) ,ラオ語 (ラオス語) ,ユアン語 (北タイ語) ,南タイ語。西ではシャン語,ルー語,クーン語およびアッサム州のカムティー語。東 (トンキン地方) では黒タイ語,白タイ語,トー語,ヌン語。北 (中国) ではチワン (僮) 語 (壮語) ,プーイ語 (仲語) ,それに海南島のリー (黎) 語 (ベ語) を含めることもある。いずれも単音節語を中心とし,孤立語的で,声調の数や語彙の相違以外はかなり等質的である。これらは,中国の貴州省を中心とするカム (侗) 語,スイ (水) 語,マク (莫) 語などと近い関係にあるが,チベット語,ビルマ語,中国語などとの同系関係は未確立である。

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