Talk:Dai people

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Contents 1 Meaning of "Dai" 2 Dai Religion 3 Shan in Burma 4 tai pong

[edit] Meaning of "Dai"

The last version said "The term 'Dai' means Heaven, or Sky." User 202.57.165.90 corrected that to "The term 'Dai' means free." Neither of these claims was substantiated and I'd like to see sources for that. Babelfisch 01:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dai Religion

i'm very interested in learning about the dai traditional religion that's mentioned in the article. Gringo300 07:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shan in Burma

Should this be linked to the Shan article? Or maybe even merged with it? Or are they actually different groups? Carl Kenner 19:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] tai pong

ethnologue has Tai Pong listed as a dialect of Tai Nua. Abstrakt

Ethnologue usually doesn't distinguish clearly between languages and dialects, and their sources are often dubious. —Babelfisch 06:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)