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Where is Tai Dón spoken?

Tai Dón is a Tai-Kadai language, spoken in China, Laos and Vietnam. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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Where Tai Dón is spoken

Tai Dón is spoken in 3 countries: China, Laos and Vietnam.

Country
China
Laos
Vietnam

On the map, Tai Dón is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Tai Dón.

How many people speak Tai Dón?

Wikidata has only a figure for one place or one part of the language, so no total is given here.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Tai Dón sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Tai Dón as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Tai-Kadai
  2. Kam-Tai
  3. Daic-Beic
  4. Daic
  5. Central-Southwestern Tai
  6. Wenma-Southwestern Tai
  7. Sapa-Southwestern Tai
  8. Southwestern Tai
  9. Southwestern Tai P
  10. Chiang Saeng
  11. White Tai
  12. Tai Dón

Related languages

Other languages in the White Tai group:

More about Tai Dón

Codes: ISO 639-3 twh, Glottolog taid1250. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Tai Dón

Where is Tai Dón spoken?

Tai Dón is spoken in China, Laos and Vietnam. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Tai Dón in?

Glottolog places Tai Dón in the Tai-Kadai family, in the branch Kam-Tai, Daic-Beic, Daic, Central-Southwestern Tai, Wenma-Southwestern Tai, Sapa-Southwestern Tai, Southwestern Tai, Southwestern Tai P, Chiang Saeng and White Tai.

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