Kadai language


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Noun1.Kadai language - a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
Kadai, Kam-Tai
Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language - the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
Kam-Sui - a group of Kadai languages
Tai - the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
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Edmondson and Solnit 1988: 4-5; 1997: 2) associate Kam-Sui with the Tai group into a superordinate Kam-Tai nod, which in turn is assembled with Hlai (Li) and Geyang (including Gelao) as the Kadai language family.
Instruments as verb classifiers in Kam (Dong)
The Zhuang do not constitute a linguistic unity either, because Chinese authorities include within that minority group some distinct ethnic groups such as the Lachi speaking a Kadai language (and not a Thai-Yay one).
An introduction to Thai ethnonymy: examples from Shan and Northern Thai
Versatiles are also attested in Chinese, Kadai languages, and other Southeast Asian languages.
On a partial, strictly word-order based definition of grammatical relations in Liangshan Nuosu *

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