Prai language explained
Prai |
Also Known As: | Phai |
Nativename: | Thin |
States: | Thailand, Laos |
Ethnicity: | Phai people |
Date: | 2001 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austro-Asiatic |
Fam2: | Khmuic |
Fam3: | Mal–Phrai |
Iso3: | prt |
Glotto: | phai1238 |
Glottorefname: | Prai |
Prai (Phray) or Phai, also known as Thin (Htin), is a Mon–Khmer language of Thailand and Laos. There are several closely related, but not mutually intelligible dialects which go by the names Prai and Thin. They are also closely related to Mal, together forming the Mal–Phrai group of languages, sometimes collectively called Lua' language (because they are spoken by the Lua people).
Phonology
!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!GlottalNasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
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Stop | | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
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Fricative | | | pronounced as /link/ | | pronounced as /link/ |
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Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | | |
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Trill | | pronounced as /link/ | | | | |
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All vowels can be long or short