Kam-tai (Noun)
Meaning
A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The kam-tai languages are primarily spoken in China, especially in the provinces of Hunan and Guizhou, and neighboring regions of Southeast Asia.
- Linguists believe the kam-tai languages belong to a larger Sino-Tibetan language family.
- There are approximately sixty million speakers of the kam-tai languages around the world.
- Tai languages have gained popularity among researchers of kam-tai languages due to the simplification of tones.
- Through extensive historical research, scholars can reconstruct the Proto-Kam-Tai ancestral language from other known Sino-Tibetan languages.