What is the pronunciation of Dai people?

Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.

Dai is the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of the total population in Thailand. Dai is the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar and a minority in China, India, Viet Nam and Cambodia. According to the data of the sixth census in 20 10, there are more than 260,000 Dai people in China.

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The development of Dai literature can be roughly divided into four stages: first, the emergence and development of ancient songs, myths and creation epics; The second period is the formation and prosperity of heroic epics, legends and ballads; Third, the rise and prosperity of stories and narrative poems; Fourth, the new literature flourished.

Dai nationality has its own national language, which is called Dai language, Thai language, Lao language, etc. Because of its distribution, it belongs to the Taiwanese branch of the Dong-Tai language family of Sino-Tibetan language family (Zhuang-Dong language family).

About 66 million people around the world use Dai language. Tonal language is the main language, and it is monosyllabic like Chinese in type. Due to the long-term differentiation and cross-border distribution, although there are still a considerable number of cognates in Dai language, there are great differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. For example, there are 22 consonants in Bai Dai and only 265,438+0 consonants in Thai, which makes it difficult to talk to each other.

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