SHLANA–7: Tai Lü

The following Tai Lü words are taken from Veomany Khotsimeuang, A Lost Tradition: The Lue of Sipsongpanna and the Written Language Reform, Hours Thesis in Asian Studies (Chinese), Australian National University, 2001; chapter “Graphic Blends”, section “Complex Orthographic Rules” (available online). The test font and the encoded test strings have been contributed by Richard Wordingham whose browser test page for Tai Tham rendering gives more background.
‘all’
/taŋ laːi/
‘spell’ (magic)
/kʰan tʰaː/
‘okay’
/kɔː diː/
‘to not come’
/bau maː/
‘to not come’
/bau ma:/
‘to not have’
/bau da:i/
‘How big an area?’
/tsak va:/
‘deceased’
/se: lɛu/
‘Really, is that true?’
/tɛː nɔː/
‘to look this way’
/lɛ maː/
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‘hair’
/keː saː/
‘to come and go’
/pai maː/
‘if’
/seː vaː/
‘time’
/veː laː/
‘physical body’
/tʰaː tuʔ/
‘in conclusion’
/tsălɛː/
‘because’
/pɔi vaː/
‘world’
/suŋ saːn/
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