Tai-Kadai · ISO 639-3 tyz
Tày Language
Tày is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 3.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Tày is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tày
Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Kam-Tai
- Daic-Beic
- Daic
- Central-Southwestern Tai
- Wenma-Southwestern Tai
- Tày
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Tày language
Tày is spoken by about 3.0 million people, which makes it the 257th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tonga (Zambia) (3.0 million) and ahead of Kumaoni (2.9 million). It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family and, more precisely, to the Wenma-Southwestern Tai group within the Daic-Beic branch.
Where is Tày spoken?
Tày is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Vietnam (3.0 million).
Tày is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Tày is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Thai, Northeastern Thai, Northern Thai, Southern Thai, Lao, Shan and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 tyz.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.