Khün language

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Khun
Kengtung Shan
Kengtung tai
ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ
Pronunciation/táj kʰɯ̌ːn/
Native toMyanmar (Shan State), Thailand
RegionKengtung
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language family
Kra–Dai
Writing system
Tai Tham script, Thai script
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
 Myanmar
Language codes
ISO 639-3kkh
Glottologkhun1259

Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ /táj kʰɯ̌ːn/; Thai: ไทเขิน [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), also known as Kengtung tai, Kengtung Shan, is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar.[2] It is a Tai language that is closely related to Thai and Lao. It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China.

Geographical distribution[]

In China, there are about 10,000 Tai Khuen (Chinese: 傣艮/傣痕) people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999).[3]

  • Menglian County 孟连县: in Mengma Town 勐马镇, and in Meng'aba 勐阿坝 (12 villages total)
  • Ximeng County 西盟县: in Mengsuo 勐梭
  • Lincang Prefecture (small, scattered population)

Phonology[]

Labial Alveolar Postalveolar
/ palatal 		Velar Glottal
Nasal [m] [n] [ɲ] [ŋ]
Plosive
&
Affricate 		aspirated [pʰ] [tʰ] [tɕʰ] [kʰ]
tenuis [p] [t] [tɕ] [k] [ʔ][a]
voiced [b] [d]
Fricative [f] [s] [h]
Trill [r][b]
Approximant [l] [j] [w]
  1. ^ The glottal stop is implied[What does 'implied' mean? Is it there or not?] after a short vowel without final, or silent before a vowel.[If it's silent, what's the evidence that it's there?]
  2. ^ The [r] is often used with Sanskrit and Pali loanwords.

See also[]

  • Northern Thai language
  • Shan language

References[]

  1. ^ Khun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ bloggang.com (thai)
  3. ^ Gao Lishi 高立士. 1999. 傣族支系探微. 中南民族学院学报 (哲学社会科学版). 1999 年第1 期 (总第96 期).

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