Is Dai in touch with Tai?

Friends who have been to Xishuangbanna must find that the architecture there is very similar to Thailand, as well as the Songkran Festival, and the customs are also very similar to Thailand.

There is also a word "Tai" in Dai language.

Is Dai in touch with Tai?

Look at the score.

Banna and the Dai language in northern Thailand can basically communicate.

Historically, Xishuangbanna, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai all belonged to Rana (? ) Kingdom.

As you can see, Xishuangbanna and Lanna both have the word "Na".

What does this mean?

The word "that" means paddy field in Thai.

"Xishuangbanna" is 12,000 rice fields.

Lana is a million rice fields.

The first king of Lanna Kingdom established the first kingdom in northern Thailand through Banna, Yunnan.

Everyone knows that the capital of Banna is Jinghong. In fact, if you look closely, it is qing/jing with similar pronunciation in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.

Jinghong means "city of dawn" in Dai language, and Chiang Mai means "new city" in Thai.

In addition, the old Dai language in Banna is exactly the same as the old Thai language before Chiang Mai, but the former currently uses the new Dai language, while the latter's old Thai language is only used in religious occasions.

Can the Dai language in Bangkok communicate with Thai?

The answer is that most people cannot.

The most basic vocabulary is the same, but if it is a professional exchange, it still needs to be translated.

The gap, perhaps just like our northern Mandarin and Cantonese in Guangdong, needs to be learned.

But in general, Dai language is a branch of many dialects of Thai, and the underlying grammar and vocabulary are basically the same.