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The Southwestern Tai or Thai languages are a branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia. Its languages include Central Thai (Siamese), Northern Thai (Lanna), Lao (including Isan ), Shan and others. Classification. The internal classification of the Southwestern Tai dialects is still not well agreed on.
List of Southwestern Tai peoples. Northern branch. Chiang Saen branch. Southern group. Southwestern Tai groups and names in China. Other Tai peoples and languages. See also. Notes. References. Citations. Sources. External links. Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages.
According to these features the Tai languages are divided into the three groups mentioned above (see map). Languages of the Southwestern group are spoken in Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, Myanmar, and Yunnan, China; they include Thai, Lao, Shan, Khün, Lü, White Tai, Black Tai, and others.
The Southwestern group includes Thai, the national language of Thailand; northeastern Thai and Lao, spoken in eastern Thailand and Laos; Pak Tay (South Thai), spoken in southern Thailand; Shan, spoken in eastern and northern Myanmar; and Tai Dam (Black Tai) and Tai Don (Tai Khaw, or White Tai), spoken mainly in North Vietnam.
There are many forms of this type of script, used by a number of languages in the Southwestern group as well as by neighbouring languages, such as Mon, Khmer, and Burmese. The Modern Thai alphabet (see Click Here to see full-size table table) is a modified form of the original writing.
Southern Thai , also known as Dambro , Pak Tai , or "Southern language" , is a Southwestern Tai ethnolinguistic identity and language spoken in southern Thailand as well as by small communities in the northernmost Malaysian states.
