Khamti language

E313548

The Khamti language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Khamti people in parts of northeastern India and northern Myanmar, closely related to other Southwestern Tai languages like Thai and Lao.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Khamti language canonical 2
Hkamti language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southwestern Tai language
Tai language
Tai–Kadai language
language
belongsToSubgroup Northern Southwestern Tai
closelyRelatedTo Lao language
Shan language
Thai language
country India
Myanmar
ethnicGroup Khamti people
geographicDistribution Northeast India and Northern Myanmar
linked to: Northern Myanmar
hasAlternativeName Hkamti language
linked to: Khamti language

Tai Hkamti
Tai Khamti
linked to: Khamti
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant initial clusters
contrastive tones
vowel length distinction
hasTone true
hasWritingSystem Khamti script
linked to: Tai Nüa script
ISO639-3Code kht
languageBranch Tai branch
languageFamily Tai–Kadai language family
languageSubgroup Southwestern Tai
lexicalSimilarityWith Lao language
Shan language
Thai language
linguisticTypology analytic language
morphologicalType isolating language
primarySpeakers Khamti people
region Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
scriptType Brahmic script
sharesFeaturesWith Central Thai
Lao
Shan
spokenIn India
Myanmar
Northeastern India
linked to: Northeast India

Northern Myanmar
tonalLanguage true
usesScriptDerivedFrom Burmese script
wordOrder SVO
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southwestern Tai hasMajorLanguage Khamti language
Tai Khamyang language relatedTo Khamti language
Khamti language hasAlternativeName Hkamti language
linked to: Khamti language