Editing Tai languages (section)

{{Short description|Branch of the Kra–Dai language family}}
{{Distinguish|Thai language|Tai language (New Guinea)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox language family
| name          = Tai
| altname       = Zhuang–Tai, Daic
| region        = Southern [[China]] (esp. [[Guangxi]], [[Guizhou]], [[Yunnan]] and [[Guangdong]]), [[Southeast Asia]], [[Northeast India]]
| familycolor   = Tai-Kadai
| fam2          = [[Kam–Tai languages|Kam–Tai]]?
| fam3          = [[Be language|Be]]–Tai?
| protoname     = [[Proto-Tai language|Proto-Tai]]
| child1        = [[Northern Tai languages|Northern]] (NT)
| child2        = [[Central Tai languages|Central]] (CT)
| child3        = [[Southwestern Tai languages|Southwestern]] (SWT)
| child4        = (see also [[Zhuang languages]])
| iso2          = tai
| iso5          = tai
| glotto        = daic1237
| glottorefname = Daic
| map           = Taikadai-en1.png
| mapcaption    = Distribution of Tai languages:<br />
{{legend|#FFEC19|Northern Tai / Northern Zhuang}}
{{legend|#FF4C00|Central Tai / Southern Zhuang}}
{{legend|#FF9D00|Southwestern Tai / Thai}}
}}

The '''Tai''', '''Zhuang–Tai''',<ref>Diller, 2008. ''The Tai–Kadai Languages'', p. 7.</ref> or '''Daic languages<ref name="glottoDaic">{{Cite journal |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/daic123 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Daic |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824185556/glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/daic1237 |archive-date=2023-08-24 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=[[Leipzig]] |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}</ref>''' ([[Ahom language|Ahom]]: 𑜁𑜪𑜨 𑜄𑜩 or 𑜁𑜨𑜉𑜫 𑜄𑜩 {{transliteration|aho|kwáam tái}} ; {{langx|shn|ၵႂၢမ်းတႆး 
}}; {{langx|th|ภาษาไท}} or {{lang|th|ภาษาไต}}, {{RTGS|phasa thai {{noitalic|or}} phasa tai}}; {{langx|lo|ພາສາໄຕ}}, {{lang|lo-Latn|phasa tai}}) are a branch of the [[Kra–Dai languages|Kra–Dai language family]]. The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including Standard [[Thai language|Thai]] or Siamese, the national language of [[Thailand]]; [[Lao language|Lao]] or Laotian, the national language of [[Laos]]; [[Myanmar]]'s [[Shan language]]; and [[Zhuang languages|Zhuang]], a major language in the Southwestern China's [[Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]], spoken by the [[Zhuang people]] ({{lang|zh|壯}}), the largest minority ethnic group in [[China]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceth//eng/ztbd/AboutChina/Ethnic/t17927.htm |title=The Zhuang ethnic minority |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China]] }}</ref> with a population of 15.55&nbsp;million, living mainly in [[Guangxi]], the rest scattered across [[Yunnan]], [[Guangdong]], [[Guizhou]], and [[Hunan]] provinces.