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Tai-Kadai

Also called Kra-Dai. Tonal languages of South-East Asia and southern China: Thai, Lao, Shan, Zhuang and others.

7 languages on this site · c. 99 million speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 2 countries.

Highlighted countries: the main official language belongs to this family.

Tai 7

  1. Thai 56 million
  2. Northeastern Thai 17 million
  3. Northern Thai 6.7 million
  4. Southern Thai 5.6 million
  5. Lao 5.5 million
  6. Zhuang 4.4 million
  7. Shan 3.7 million

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.