Phu Thai language
| Phu Thai | |
|---|---|
| Phu Thai | |
| Native to | Thailand, Laos and Vietnam |
Native speakers | 870,000 (2002–2006)[1] |
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Tai–Kadai
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pht |
| Glottolog |
phut1244[2] |
Phu Thai (Phuu Thai; Thai: Phasa Phuthai, ภาษาผู้ไท or ภูไท) is a Thai language closely related to Tai Dam and Tai Don, it is less closely related to the Isan and the Lao languages. It may be the same as Tay Khang.[1]
Speakers
Speakers of the Phu Thai language in Thailand numbered about 156,000 in 1993. They can be found mainly in the areas around Khamcha-i, Nakhon Phanom, Ubon Ratchathani, Kalasin and Sakhon Nakhon. Phu Thai speakers live as well in the Khammouan, Savannakhet, Saravan, and Champassak provinces of Laos, northern areas of Vietnam, and possibly also in China.
There is little dialect differentiation.
Status
Despite its rich heritage, and regional fame, in Thailand this language group is increasingly becoming integrated into the mainstream Issan language. This is due in large part to a campaign by the Thai government to modernize all Thai people, as well as due to outside influences of television, Internet and local radio broadcasts.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Phu Thai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Phu Thai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Khanitthānan, Wilaiwan. 1977. Phāsā Phū Thai. Krung Thēp Mahā Nakhō̜n: Rōngphim Mahāwitthāyālai Thammasāt, 2520.
External links
- Ban Khok Kong Phu-Thai Village
- In Search for the Phutais
- Mo Yao : Phutai Healing
- Phutai Language : A comparative study of the Phutai in Thailand and Laos P.D.R.
- โครงการอนุรักษ์และฟื้นฟูคุณค่าของภาษาผู้ไท
- About Some Linguistic Variations in Phu Tai
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