| Tai Yo | |
|---|---|
| ไทญ้อ | |
 The word "Tai Yo" written in the Lai Tay script | |
| Region | Isan, Mekong floodplain, Vietnam |
| Ethnicity | Nyaw |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1990 – 1995 census)[1] |
| Vietnamese alphabet Thai script Lai Tay script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tyj – Tai Yonyw – Tai Nyaw |
| Glottolog | taid1248 |
Tai Yo (Thai: ไทญ้อ), also known as Tai Mène and Nyaw (Thai: ไตเมือง), is a Tai language of Southeast Asia. It is closely related to Tai Pao of Vietnam, where it may have originated. It was once written in a unique script, the Tai Yo script, but that is no longer in use.[1] The language is known regionally in Laos and Thailand as Tai Mène and Tai Nyaw and, in Vietnam as Tai Do (old-fashioned English transcription) and Tai Quy Chau.[4] Superficially, Tai Yo appears to be a Southwestern Tai language but this is only because of centuries of language contact and it is properly classified with the Northern Tai languages.[2] The Nyaw/Nyo spoken in central Thailand and western Cambodia is not the same as Tai Yo.[5]
- ^ a b Tai Yo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tai Nyaw at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ a b Chamberlain (1991), p. 119
- ^ Pittayawat Pittayaporn (2009). The Phonology of Proto-Tai. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University. p. 318.
- ^ ISO 639-3 Registration Authority (2015). Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code (PDF). Request number 2015-019.
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Thananan (2014)