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Traditional dress based on Tai Lue (Lu) indigenous hill tribe people , Chiang Mai, Thailand

Tai Lue (ᦅᧄᦺᦑ) kam tai
Native to: China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, United States
Region: Yunnan, China
Ethnicity: Lu
Native speakers: 550,000 (2000–2013)
Language family: Kra–Dai

Tai Lɯ, Tai Lü, Thai Lue, Tai Le, Xishuangbanna Dai (Chinese: 傣仂语; pinyin: Dǎilèyǔ; Burmese: လူးရှမ်း, romanized: luu Shan; Lao: ພາສາໄຕລື້; Thai: ภาษาไทลื้อ, phasa thai lue, pronounced [pʰāː.sǎː.tʰāj.lɯ́ː]; Vietnamese: tiếng Lự or tiếng Lữ), is a Tai language of the Lu people, spoken by about 700,000 people in Southeast Asia. This includes 280,000 people in China (Yunnan), 200,000 in Burma, 134,000 in Laos, 83,000 in Thailand and 4,960 in Vietnam. The language is similar to other Tai languages and is closely related to Kham Mueang or Tai Yuan, which is also known as Northern Thai language. In Yunnan, it is spoken in all of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, as well as Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er City.

In Vietnam, Tai Lue speakers are officially recognised as the Lự ethnic minority, although in China they are classified as part of the Dai people, along with speakers of the other Tai languages apart from Zhuang.

Tai Lue has 21 syllable-initial consonants, 9 syllable finals and six tones (three different tones in checked syllables, six in syllables).

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Lue_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Lue_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tai_Lue_alphabet
https://omniglot.com/writing/tailue.htm

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