16 Facts About Tai peoples

Tai peoples are both culturally and genetically very similar and therefore primarily identified through their language.

Comparative linguistic research seems to indicate that the Tai peoples people were a proto-Tai peoples–Kadai-speaking culture of southern China.

Tai peoples speaking tribes migrated southwestward along the rivers and over the lower passes into Southeast Asia, perhaps prompted by the Chinese expansion and suppression.

Tai peoples migrated far and wide: by the Tang and Song periods, they were present from the Red River to the Salween River, from Baoshan to Jingdong.

The Tai peoples formed small city-states known as mueang under Khmer suzerainty on the outskirts of the Khmer Empire, building the irrigation infrastructure and paddy fields for the wet-rice cultivation methods of the Tai peoples people.

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Formidable political control exercised by the Khmer Empire extended not only over the centre of the Khmer province, where the majority of the population was Khmer, but to outer border provinces likely populated by non-Khmer Tai peoples—including areas to the north and northeast of modern Bangkok, the lower central plain and the upper Ping River in the Lamphun-Chiang Mai region.

The Tai peoples people were the predominant non-Khmer groups in the areas of central Thailand that formed the geographical periphery of the Khmer Empire.

Some Tai peoples groups were probably assimilated into the Khmer population.

The Tai peoples had firmly established control in areas to the northeast of the declining Khmer Empire.

Tai peoples ruled indirectly over an ethnically diverse collection of small polities and chieftainships.

Tai peoples languages spoken today use incredibly diverse scripts, from Chinese Characters to Abugida scripts.

The Tai peoples branch moved south into Southeast Asia only around 1000 AD.

Tai peoples people tend to have high frequencies of Y-DNA haplogroup O-M95, moderate frequencies of Y-DNA haplogroup O-M122, and moderate to low frequencies of haplogroup O-M119.

The Tai peoples lived in the lowland and river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia.

The Tai peoples village consisted of nuclear families working as subsistence rice farmers, living in small houses elevated above the ground.

In Burma, there are various Tai peoples that are often categorized as part of a larger Shan ethnicity .