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KAM-TAI

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kam-Tai mean?

• KAM-TAI (noun)
The noun KAM-TAI has 1 sense:

1. a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia

Familiarity information: KAM-TAI used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• KAM-TAI (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Kadai; Kadai language; Kam-Tai

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)

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