Is Buyi language related to Thai?

In fact, the northern dialects of Buyi and Zhuang are basically the same. They and Thai belong to the Taiwan Province branch of Dong-Tai language family of Zhuang-Dong language family. From the perspective of historical comparative linguistics, the two are closely related.

In terms of writing, the Buyi people didn't have a writing system before liberation, and later they used Latin letters as the writing system, while Thai used its own alphabet system.

Buyei language

Buyi language is the language of Buyi people, one of the ethnic minorities in China, belonging to the Taiwan Province branch of the Dong-Tai language family, which is also called Zhuang-Dai language family by China scholars. Buyi language is actually the same language as Zhuang northern dialect. In A.D. 1950, linguists from China visited Guizhou for the first time, and these languages in Guizhou were named Buyi. Later, they entered Guangxi and found that the northern dialect of Zhuang language was actually the same as Buyi language. However, due to various reasons, it is very unscientific to artificially divide the same language into two languages according to the administrative divisions of Guangxi and Guizhou. This is why most Buyi people are distributed in the south of Guizhou Province, but there are no Buyi people in Guangxi and no Zhuang people in Guizhou. According to the population, there were more than 2 million Buyi people in the 2000 census, so the population using their language was about 2 million.

The linguistic features of Buyi language are basically the same as those of other languages in this branch. Monosyllabic words are dominant. Word order and function words are the main means to express grammatical meaning. Initial is simple, palatalized and lip-shaped. Vowels consist of vowels or vowels plus vowels. Vowels are long and short, and vowels are I, U, M, N, P, T, K and so on. Syllables consist of initials, finals and tones. There are six kinds of soothing tones, and syllables end in vowels or nasal sounds. From the perspective of language family, the initials of Buyi language are simplified and merged faster than those of other languages in the same language family. Buyi sentences can be analyzed into one, two or more phrases. Buyi people created a script based on Latin alphabet in 1956, which was revised in the early 1980s and is now being piloted in minority areas.

Thai

Thai is the official language of Thailand. It belongs to the Dong-Tai language family of Zhuang-Dong language family. Thai is an analytical language, and different tones can distinguish vocabulary and grammar.

Thai and Taiwanese

Thai and Taiwanese are all translated from English Thai. Thai in English can refer to a language or a group of languages. Generally speaking, articles written in Chinese should be written in Thai when expressing a language, and in Taiwanese when expressing a group of languages including Thai.