Where is Tai Hongjin spoken?

Tai Hongjin is a Tai-Kadai language, spoken in China and Vietnam. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
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Where Tai Hongjin is spoken

Tai Hongjin is spoken in 2 countries: China and Vietnam.

Tai Hongjin has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Tai Hongjin?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Tai Hongjin sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Tai Hongjin 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. Shanic
  11. Southern Shanic
  12. Wuding-Yuanyang Tai
  13. Tai Hongjin

Related languages

Other languages in the Wuding-Yuanyang Tai group:

More about Tai Hongjin

Codes: ISO 639-3 tiz, Glottolog taih1246. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Tai Hongjin

Where is Tai Hongjin spoken?

Tai Hongjin is spoken in China and Vietnam. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Tai Hongjin in?

Glottolog places Tai Hongjin 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, Shanic, Southern Shanic and Wuding-Yuanyang Tai.

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