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Tày or Thổ (a name shared with the unrelated Thổ and Cuoi languages) is the major Tai language of Vietnam, spoken by more than a million Tày people in Northeastern Vietnam.

Tày
Tiểng Tày, Thổ
Native to	Vietnam
Ethnicity	Tày
Native speakers	1.63 million (2009)[1]
Language family	Kra–Dai Tai Central Tai Tày
Writing system	Latin (modified Vietnamese alphabet) Chữ Nôm Tày Sawndip
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tyz
Glottolog	tayy1238
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Varieties

Tày linguistic varieties include the following:[2][3]

• Tày Bảo Lạc – spoken in Bảo Lạc District, western Cao Bang province.
• Tày Trùng Khánh – spoken in Trùng Khánh District, northeastern Cao Bang province.
• Thu Lao or Dai Zhuang varieties are considered to be a different language.

Phonology

Consonants

Tày consonants

		Labial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		plain	pal.
Plosive	voiceless	p	pʲ	t	c	k
	aspirated	pʰ	pʰʲ	tʰ		kʰ
	voiced	b	bʲ	d
	implosive	ɓ	ɓʲ	ɗ
Fricative	voiceless	f		s		x	h
	voiced	v		z		ɣ
	lateral			ɬ
Nasal		m		n	ɲ	ŋ
Trill				r
Approximant		w		l	j

• The Cao Bẳng Tày dialect is the only variety to have the sounds /j w r ɣ b d bʲ/.

Vowels

Tày vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		ɯ	u
High-mid	e		o
Mid		ə əː
Low-mid	ɛ	ɐ	ɔ
Low		a

Tày diphthongs

	Front		Back
Close	ie		ɯə	uo

• There are also three semivowels [u̯ i̯ ɯ̯] that mainly occur in syllable-coda position in combination with other vowel sounds. [u̯ i̯] are typically realized as consonant sounds [w j]. [u̯] follows front vowels /i e ɛ/ and central vowels /ə a ɐ/. [i̯] follows back vowels /u o ɔ/ as well as central vowels /ə a ɐ/. However, [ɯ̯] only follows /ə/.[4]

Tones

Six tones are present in Cao Bẳng Tày:

Tày tones

a̋	˥
a᷄	˦˥
á	˦
ā	˧
à	˨
a᷆	˨˩

References

На других языках

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- [en] Tày language

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[fr] Tày (langue)

Le tày est une langue taï-kadaï, de la branche taï, parlée dans le Nord du Viêt Nam par la minorité Tày.

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[ru] Тхо (тайский язык)

Тхо (вьетн. Thô), также Ngan, Phen, Tai Tho, Tày, Print “Thô” (уничижительно), Thu Lao, T’o — совокупное название нескольких тайских языков, распространённых в северном Вьетнаме, на которых говорят народности, определённые правительством как тхо.

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