Daai | |
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Region | Myanmar |
Ethnicity | Daai Chin |
Native speakers | 37,000 (2010) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dao |
Glottolog |
daai1236 |
Dai (also known as Daia Chin), which borders the Mün and Ütbü language groups, is a Kuki-Chin of Myanmar. It is spoken in 142 villages in Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, and Paletwa townships in Chin State, Burma ( Ethnologue).
Mutual intelligibility among Nghngilo (Yang), Daa Yindu, and Mkui groups is high, but is lower among other groups. [2] Dai has greater than 90% lexical similarity with Daa Yindu, Yang, Mkui, Duk, and Msang, 81%–88% with Ngxang ( Paletwa township) and Kheng, 80% with Shiip ( Matupi township), 91%–94% with Gah/Ng-Gha (part of Mün), and 81%–87% with Mün. [2]
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Daai Chin.
Daai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasals | m̥ m | n̥ n | ŋ̊ ŋ | ||
Plosives | p pʰ b | t tʰ d | k kʰ | ʔ | |
Fricatives | s sʰ | x ɣ | h | ||
Lateral Fricatives | ɬ | ||||
Approximants | w | l | j |
Daai has seven vowel phonemes, each with a phonemic length contrast.
Front | Central | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unrounded | Rounded | |||
High | i iː | ɯ ɯː | u uː | |
Mid | ɛ ɛː | ə əː | ɔ ɔː | |
Low | a aː |
Daai is an isolating or analytic language. There is no inflectional morphology at the word level; case, number, and tense are marked by clitics.
Dai | English |
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mthan | night |
mpyong | mouth |
kpyak | to destroy |
pha | to arrive |
Nghngaai-ktheih hmin lokti. | The mango fruits became ripe. |
Mat jah mata i:ma am ngleh-ei ni. | They did not visit each other's houses. |
Daai | |
---|---|
Region | Myanmar |
Ethnicity | Daai Chin |
Native speakers | 37,000 (2010) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dao |
Glottolog |
daai1236 |
Dai (also known as Daia Chin), which borders the Mün and Ütbü language groups, is a Kuki-Chin of Myanmar. It is spoken in 142 villages in Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, and Paletwa townships in Chin State, Burma ( Ethnologue).
Mutual intelligibility among Nghngilo (Yang), Daa Yindu, and Mkui groups is high, but is lower among other groups. [2] Dai has greater than 90% lexical similarity with Daa Yindu, Yang, Mkui, Duk, and Msang, 81%–88% with Ngxang ( Paletwa township) and Kheng, 80% with Shiip ( Matupi township), 91%–94% with Gah/Ng-Gha (part of Mün), and 81%–87% with Mün. [2]
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Daai Chin.
Daai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasals | m̥ m | n̥ n | ŋ̊ ŋ | ||
Plosives | p pʰ b | t tʰ d | k kʰ | ʔ | |
Fricatives | s sʰ | x ɣ | h | ||
Lateral Fricatives | ɬ | ||||
Approximants | w | l | j |
Daai has seven vowel phonemes, each with a phonemic length contrast.
Front | Central | Back | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unrounded | Rounded | |||
High | i iː | ɯ ɯː | u uː | |
Mid | ɛ ɛː | ə əː | ɔ ɔː | |
Low | a aː |
Daai is an isolating or analytic language. There is no inflectional morphology at the word level; case, number, and tense are marked by clitics.
Dai | English |
---|---|
mthan | night |
mpyong | mouth |
kpyak | to destroy |
pha | to arrive |
Nghngaai-ktheih hmin lokti. | The mango fruits became ripe. |
Mat jah mata i:ma am ngleh-ei ni. | They did not visit each other's houses. |