Thai Song language


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Thai Song, or Lao Song, is a Tai language of Thailand. The Tai Song originally settled in Phetchaburi Province, and from there went to settle in various provinces such as Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Suphanburi, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, Samut Songkhram, Nakhon Sawan, and Phitsanulok.[2]

Thai Song
Lao Song
Native toThailand
EthnicityLao Song

Native speakers

45,000 (2001)[1]

Kra–Dai

Thai script, Tai Viet
Language codes
ISO 639-3soa
Glottologthai1259
ELPThai Song

Map of Tai dam language, showing Thai song as a dialect of Tai dam

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive tenuis p t k ʔ
aspirated ph th kh
voiced b
Fricative f s h
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Approximant w l j
  1. ^ Thai Song at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Somsonge, Burusphat (1 Jul 2012). "TONES OF THAI SONG VARIETIES" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 5: 32–48.
  3. ^ Somsonge, Burusphat (Feb 2013). "THE LANGUAGE SHIFT IN PROGRESS OF THAI SONG" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 6: 18–34.