Pa Di ' is a
Southwestern Tai language of the Chinese–Vietnamese border. There are about 300 Pa Di speakers in
Muong Khuong District,
Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, who are classified as ethnic
Tày by the Vietnamese government.
[ ] Pa Di tonal splits are similar to those of
Standard Thai.
Jerold Edmondson
Jerold Alan Edmondson (Chinese name: 艾杰瑞 Aì Jiéruì, September 30, 1941 – August 27, 2023) was an American linguist. His work spans four subdisciplines: historical and comparative linguistics, East Asian linguistics, field linguistics, ...
reports about 300 speakers. However, Bùi Quốc Khánh (2013) reports 3,000 Pa Dí people living in 19 natural villages in Mường Khương, Tung Trung Phố, and Nậm Chảy communes of
Mường Khương District
Mường Khương is a huyện, rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast (Vietnam), Northeast region of Vietnam. ''Mường'' is as variation of ''Mueang#Etymology, Mueang''. As of 2003, the district had a population of 48,242. The di ...
.
In
China
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, Pa Di is spoken in
Hekou Yao Autonomous County and
Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County,
Honghe Prefecture,
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
.
References
Sources
*Bùi Quốc Khánh. 2013. ''Tri thức dân gian trong canh tác cây lúa nước của người Pa Dí ở Lào Cai''. Nhà xuất bản Thời Đại.
*Ngô Đức Thịnh (1975). "Mấy ý kiến góp phần xác minh người Pa Dí ở Mường Khương (Lào Cai)". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. ''Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam'', 287-305. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội.
Southwestern Tai languages
Languages of Vietnam
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