On the Linguistic Affiliation of 'Tai Loi'
This short investigation of languages referred to as Tai Loi shows that at least seven different languages from three Palaungic subgroups are referred to by this exonym. Simply meaning ‘mountaineers’, Tai Loi appears to denote Buddhist speakers as a sociopolitical identity rather than a linguistic o...
Main Author: | Elizabeth Hall |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
2017-08-01
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Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52409 |
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