between Kra-Dai speaking people, suggesting a common ancestry and a large replacement of former non-Kra-Dai groups in Southeast Asia. Kra-Dai populations...

Bǎiyuè 百越) Be Kra Gelao Kam–Sui Dong Sui Maonan Mulao/Mulam Hlai/Li Tai Zhuang (Vahcuengh) Northern Zhuang Southern Zhuang Bouyei Dai Tai Lü language...

through Laos and northern Vietnam to the Cambodia border. Kra-Dai Hlai languages Kam-Sui languages Kra languages Be language Tai languages Northern Tai languages...

*qa-sáuŋ 'canine tooth', *qi(d)zúR 'saliva', *píntu 'door', *-ŋel 'deaf') Kra-Dai Malayo-Polynesian The Malayo-Polynesian languages are—among other things—characterized...

combination of individual words without inflection. These features, common in Kra-Dai languages, also bear similarities to Sino-Tibetan languages like Chinese...

sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic families spoken in an area stretching from...

(2002). "On the affiliation of Miao-Yao and Kadai: Can we posit the Miao-Dai family?" (PDF). Mon-Khmer Studies. 32: 71–100. Colarusso, John (1997). "Proto-Pontic:...

Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, etc. Indigenous peoples such as the Hlai, a Kra–Dai-speaking ethnic group, are native to the island and compose 15% of the...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

time, e.g., ເວລາໃດ (vela dai [wéː láː dàj]), ຍາມໃດ (gnam dai [ɲáːm dàj]), and ປານໃດ (pan dai [pàːn dài]). ex: ເມື່ອໃດ mua dai [mɯ̄a dàj When.INTERR ຊິ...

Japanese (Japonic) Karuk (Hokan) Khmer (Austroasiatic) Korean (Koreanic) Lao (Kra-Dai) Manchu (Tungusic) used vowel harmony in gender inflections. Chinese (Sino-Tibetan)...

140 Indo-European, 84 Dravidian, 32 Austro-Asiatic, 14 Andamanese, 5 Kra-Dai languages. The Southern Indian languages are from the Dravidian family...

languages include Vietnamese and Khmer. Kra-Dai: spoken mainly in Thailand, Laos, and parts of southern China. Major Kra-Dai languages include Zhuang, Thai, and...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

"Atticism", language purists, who sought in their writing to leave the lingua franca of the marketplace for the classical style. James Morwood in Oxford...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: Lingua franca Lists of languages List of languages by number of native speakers...

Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

pu44 ljo44; autonym in Vietnam: qu32 te453, where qu32 means "person") is a Kra language spoken in Yunnan, China and in northern Vietnam. There were 9,500...

up the population of ancient Yelang. The Gelao languages belong to the Kra–Dai language family. Today, only a small minority of the Gelao still speak...

Flegontov, Pavel (2 July 2022). "Reconstructing the genetic history of Kra-Dai speakers from Thailand". doi:10.1101/2022.06.30.498332. S2CID 250267533...

and by 500 BCE Indo-Aryan speakers from the Gangetic Plains as well as Kra–Dai speakers from southern Yunnan and Shan State. Due to the biodiversity and...

Chinese, Slavic languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Kra-Dai languages, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese exhibit frequent pro-drop features...

of register and contour tones. Tone is typical of languages including Kra–Dai, Vietic, Sino-Tibetan, Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan...

early studies hypothesized Vietnamese language-origins to have been either Kra-Dai, Sino-Tibetan, or Austroasiatic. Austroasiatic origins are so far the most...

Kokborok Mandarin Chinese Mizo Tibetan Austroasiatic Khmer Vietnamese Kra–Dai Has Hlai Lao Thai Other East Asian Evenki Korean Mongolian Austronesian...

mainland and insular Southeast Asia, including Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien, and Austronesian languages. It was established in 2009 and...

language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) is domestically restricted...