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Phai language

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Native to
  
Thailand, Laos

Native speakers
  
80,000 (2000–2005)

Ethnicity
  
Phai people

ISO 639-3
  
prt

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Khmuic Mal–Phrai Phai

Glottolog
  
phai1238  (Phai) pray1239  (Pray 3)

Prai (Phray) or Phai, also known as Thin (Theen, Htin) and Kha Sam Liam, is a Mon–Khmer language of Thailand and Laos. It is one of several closely related languages, such as Mal, which go by the names Prai and Thin. It is sometimes distinguished as Pray 1; the Ban Wen dialect has been labeled Pray 3. The East Pua Pray variety has been referred to as Pray 2 and has also been known as Lua' (see Lua' language (disambiguation).

References

Phai language Wikipedia