Khün language
Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ /táj kʰɯ̌ːn/; Thai: ไทเขิน [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), also known as Kengtung Dai, Kengtung-Hsipaw Shan, is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar.[3] It is a Tai language that is closely related to Thai and Lao. It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China.
| Khun | |
|---|---|
| ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ | |
| Pronunciation | /táj kʰɯ̌ːn/ |
| Native to | Myanmar (Shan State), Thailand |
| Region | Kengtung |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Kra–Dai
| |
| Tai Tham script, Thai script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kkh |
| Glottolog | khun1259[2] |
Geographical distribution
In China, there are about 10,000 Tai Khuen (Chinese: 傣艮/傣痕) people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999).[4]
- Menglian County 孟连县: in Mengma Town 勐马镇, and in Meng'aba 勐阿坝 (12 villages total)
- Ximeng County 西盟县: in Mengsuo 勐梭
- Lincang Prefecture (small, scattered population)
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar / palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | [m] | [n] | [ɲ] | [ŋ] | ||
| Plosives and affricates |
aspirated | [pʰ] | [tʰ] | [tɕʰ] | [kʰ] | |
| tenuis | [p] | [t] | [tɕ] | [k] | [ʔ]* | |
| voiced | [b] | [d] | ||||
| Fricative | [f] | [s] | [h] | |||
| Trill | [r]** | |||||
| Approximant | [l] | [j] | [w] | |||
- * The glottal stop is implied after a short vowel without final, or silent before a vowel.
- ** The [r] is often used with Sanskrit and Pali loanwords.
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See also
References
- Khun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Khun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- bloggang.com (thai)
- Gao Lishi 高立士. 1999. 傣族支系探微. 中南民族学院学报 (哲学社会科学版). 1999 年第1 期 (总第96 期).
- Owen, R. Wyn. 2012. "A tonal analysis of contemporary Tai Khuen varieties". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 5:12-31.
- Petsuk, Rasi (1978). General characteristics of the Khün language. Mahidol University MA thesis.
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