The Rhythm of Tai! 🧡 1. Tai-Nue 🇨🇳 2. Tai- Zhuang 🇨🇳 3. Tai-Siam 🇹🇭 4. Tai-Ahom 🇮🇳 5. Tai-Lue 🇨🇳 🇱🇦 🇹🇭 6. Tai-Laos 🇱🇦 7. Tai-Yuan 🇹🇭 8. Tai-Isan 🇹🇭 9. Tai-Khun 🇲🇲🇹🇭 All members of the Tai-Kadai (also known as Kadai or Kam-Tai) language family evolved from an ancestral language called Proto-Tai which is thought to have originated in the area between northern Vietnam and southeastern China. Some 2,000 years ago, speakers of the Tai languages moved southward into Southeast

The Histories of Tai-Kadai Languages (Kra-Dai) & Austroasiatic Languages (Mon-Khmer)!🧡 Tai-Kadai Languages (Kra-Dai) The Kra-Dai languages, also known as the Tai-Kadai languages, are a language family widely spoken across southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia. The Tai branch, which contains Thai and Lao, constitutes the bulk of the family. These languages are tonal. They also share many lexical similarities with the Chinese languages due to centuries of language contact. There are also hyp