Kayah Li language

E680708

The Kayah Li language is a Karenic language spoken primarily by the Kayah (Karenni) people of eastern Myanmar and parts of Thailand, written in its own Kayah Li script.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kayah Li language canonical 5
Eastern Kayah Li language 1
Western Kayah Li language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Karenic language ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeName Kayah ⓘ
Kayah Li ⓘ
Red Karen ⓘ
countryOfficialStatus recognized minority language in Myanmar ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated Karenni ⓘ
linked to: Karenni people

Kayah ⓘ
glottologCode kaya1329 ⓘ
glottologName Western Kayah ⓘ
hasContactInfluenceFrom Burmese ⓘ
Thai ⓘ
hasDialect Eastern Kayah ⓘ
Western Kayah ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology analytic ⓘ
isolating ⓘ
hasOrthography Kayah Li script ⓘ
Latin-based orthography (limited use) ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system ⓘ
contrastive tone ⓘ
phonemic vowel length ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
hasScriptUnicodeBlock Kayah Li ⓘ
iso639-3Code kyu ⓘ
languageFamily Karenic ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Burmese ⓘ
Pwo Karen ⓘ
Sgaw Karen ⓘ
primaryWordOrder SVO ⓘ
region Southeast Asia ⓘ
scriptCreatedBy Htae Bu Phae ⓘ
scriptCreatedIn 1960s ⓘ
scriptType alphabet ⓘ
spokenBy Karenni people ⓘ
Kayah people ⓘ
spokenIn Myanmar ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
spokenInRegion Kayah State ⓘ
status minority language ⓘ
unicodeBlockRange U+A900–U+A92F ⓘ
usedFor community literature ⓘ
education in some local schools ⓘ
local media ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
writingSystem Kayah Li script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Karenic languages → hasMajorLanguage → Kayah Li language ⓘ
Kayah people → hasLanguage → Kayah Li language ⓘ
Karen languages → hasLanguage → Kayah Li language ⓘ
Kayan language → closelyRelatedTo → Kayah Li language ⓘ
Karenni people → speak → Kayah Li language ⓘ
Kayah languages → hasPart → Eastern Kayah Li language ⓘ
linked to: Kayah Li language
Kayah languages → hasPart → Western Kayah Li language ⓘ
linked to: Kayah Li language
Kayah Li script → designedFor → Western Kayah language ⓘ
linked to: Kayah Li language