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KAM-TAI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
Synonyms:
Kadai; Kadai language; Kam-Tai
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kam-Tai" is a kind of...):
Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Kam-Tai"):
Kam-Sui (a group of Kadai languages)
Tai (the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages)