Sapa language

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Sapa
Tày Sa Pa
Native to
Sa Pa
EthnicityTày
Native speakers
300 (2002)[1]
Latin
(Vietnamese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3tys
Glottologtays1238

Sapa, or Tày Sa Pa, is a

Tay people, most of whom speak Central Tai languages rather than Southwestern Tai languages. According to Jerold Edmondson, the phonology, tones, and lexicon of Tày Sa Pa is similar to that of Standard Thai
.

A similar Southwestern Tai language called

References

  1. ^ Sapa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "Map & Language Descriptions | Borderlands: Lesser Known Indigenous Languages of Northern Vietnam". www.uta.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-30.

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