Pa Di language

Pa Di
Native to China, Vietnam
Native speakers
(undated figure of 1,300)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pdi
Glottolog padi1241[2]

Pa Di is a Southwestern Tai language of the Chinese–Vietnamese border. There are about 300 Pa Di speakers in Muong Khuong District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, who are classified as ethnic Tày be the Vietnamese government.[3] Pa Di tonal splits are similar to those of Standard Thai.

References

  1. Pa Di at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pa Di". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. http://www.uta.edu/faculty/jerry/research/map.html


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