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The Phake language (phaa-kay) or Tai Phake language is spoken in the Buri Dihing Valley of Assam, India.

Phake
(တႝ)ၸႃကေ
Native toIndia
RegionAssam
EthnicityTai Phake people
Native speakers
2,000 (2007)[1]
Language family
Kra–Dai
  • Tai
    • Southwestern
      • Northwestern
        • Phake
Writing system
Burmese script
(Phake variation,
called Lik-Tai)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3phk
Glottologphak1238
ELPPhake

Distribution


Tai Phake Villages (Morey 2005:22)
Tai name Translation of Tai name Assamese/English name District
ma꞉n3 pha꞉4 ke꞉5 taü3 Lower Phake village Namphakey Dibrugarh
ma꞉n3 pha꞉k4 ta꞉5 Other side of the river village Tipam Phake Dibrugarh
ma꞉n3 pha꞉4 ke꞉5 nɔ6 Upper Phake village Borphake Tinsukia
niŋ1 kam4 Ning kam Nagas Nigam Phake Tinsukia
ma꞉n3 pha꞉4 naiŋ2 Red sky village Faneng Tinsukia
məŋ2 la꞉ŋ2 Country of the Lang Nagas Mounglang Tinsukia
məŋ2 mɔ1 Mine village Man Mau Tinsukia
ma꞉n3 loŋ6 Big village Man Long Tinsukia
nauŋ1 lai6 Nong Lai Nagas Nonglai -

(Note: For an explanation of the notation system for Tai tones, see Proto-Tai language#Tones.)

The maːn˧ corresponds to the modern Thai บ้าน, ban, and Shan ဝၢၼ်ႈ wan which corresponds to 'village'.

Buragohain (1998) lists the following Tai Phake villages.


Phonology



Initial consonants


Tai Phake has the following initial consonants:[3]

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
voiceless voiced voiceless voiced voiceless voiced voiceless voiced voiceless
Plosive Tenuis ptckʔ
Aspirated pʰtʰkʰ
Nasal mnŋ
Fricative sh
Lateral l
Semi-vowel wj

Final consonants


Tai Phake has the following final consonants:

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
voiceless voiced voiceless voiced voiced voiceless voiced voiceless
Plosive Tenuis ptkʔ
Nasal mnŋ
Semi-vowel wj

-[w] occurs after front vowels and [a]-, -[j] occurs after back vowels and [a]-.[2]


Vowels


Tai Phake has the following vowel inventory:[4]

Front Back
unr. unr. rnd.
short short long short
Close i ɯ u
Mid e ɤ o
Open ɛ a a: ɔ

Writing system


See also: Burmese script and Burmese alphabet

The Tai Phake have their own writing system called 'Lik-Tai', which they share with the Khamti people and Tai Aiton people.[2] It closely resembles the Northern Shan script of Myanmar, which is a variant of the Burmese script, with some of the letters taking divergent shapes.[5]


Consonants



Vowels



Notes


  1. Phake at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Diller, Anthony (1992). "Tai languages in Assam: Daughters or Ghosts": 16. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Diller, Anthony (1992). "Tai languages in Assam: Daughters or Ghosts": 14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Morey, Stephen (2008). "The Tai Languages of Assam". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Inglis, Douglas (2017). "Myanmar-based Khamti Shan Orthography". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.
  6. http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn11/UTN11_4.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. "Tai Phake language, alphabet, and pronunciation". Omniglot. Retrieved 18 February 2021.

References



На других языках

- [en] Phake language

[fr] Tai phake

Le tai phake ou phake (တႝၸႃကေ ou ၸႃကေ en tai phake), ou encore tai phakial, est une langue taï-kadaï, parlée dans l'Assam, dans le nord-ouest de l'Inde.


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