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Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> Tue, 08 December 2020 23:14 UTC

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On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 20:42:49 +0000
Peter Constable <pgcon6@msn.com> wrote:

> I think it should be ascertained that there aren’t cases in which
> “Western [language x]” is used by different communities to mean
> different language varieties. “Western” is relative—west of
> _something_---and different people might have different somethings in
> mind.

Does 'Western Lao' count?  It's apparently an old name for Northern
Thai (= nod), while Wikipedia uses the term for a dialect of Lao spoken
only in Thailand, so technically a dialect of Northeastern Thai (=tts).

Northern Tai is the northern part of Zhuang, Northern Thai is the main
local language of northern Thailand, Tai Nuea (literally 'Northern
Thai') is a language spoken near the Sino-Burman border, and Tai Lue is
yet another region in the language - I've seen it claimed that 'Lue'
means 'northern'.

The southern part of Zhuang is a Central Tai language (or group), but
Central Thai is Siamese (=th), a South-Western Tai language.

Which side of the Atlantic is southern English spoken?

Richard.

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