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Selected languages: Yay
UPSID number: 2402
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, Li-Kam-Tai
The languages has 34 segments
Frequency index: N/A
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Comments:

Yay is spoken in Northwestern Vietnam and a few
speakers in the South in Vietnam, also in Southern Yunnan
uin China.
There are 6 tones on non-stopped syllables, 4
essentially level, 1 rising, and 1 falling.

Sources:

Gedney, W.J. 1965. Yay, a Northern Tai language in North
Vietnam. Lingua 14: 180-93.