Khün language

Not to be confused with Khuen language.
Khun
Pronunciation /tai kʰɯn/
Native to Burma (Shan State), Thailand
Region Kengtung
Native speakers
 (100,000 cited 1990)[1]
Tai–Kadai
Tai Tham script, Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kkh
Glottolog khun1259[2]

Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: Dai Kun, /tai kʰɯn/; Thai: ไทเขิน Thai pronunciation: [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan state, Myanmar.[3] It is a Tai language, 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) people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999).[4]

Phonology

  Labial Alveolar Postalveolar
/ palatal		 Velar Glottal
Nasal [m] [n] [ɲ] [ŋ]  
Plosives
and
affricates		 [pʰ] [tʰ] [tɕʰ] [kʰ]  
[p] [t] [tɕ] [k] [ʔ]*
[b] [d]  
Fricative [f] [s]     [h]
Trill   [r]**      
Approximant   [l] [j] [w]  
* The glottal plosive is implied after a short vowel without final, or silent before a vowel.
** The [r] is often used with Sankrit and Pali loanwords.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Khun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Khun". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ bloggang.com (thai)
  4. ↑ 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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