Varieties
Tày linguistic varieties include the following: *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
* The Cao Bẳng Tày dialect is the only variety to have the sounds .Vowels
* There are also three semivowels that mainly occur in syllable-coda position in combination with other vowel sounds. are typically realized as consonant sounds . follows front vowels and central vowels . follows back vowels as well as central vowels . However, only follows .Tones
Six tones are present in Cao Bẳng Tày:Vocabulary
References
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