Yoy is a Tai language of Thailand and Laos. The Yoy language is now in the critical endangered state due to a rapid language shift, which may eventually lead to complete language loss. [3]
Yoy is a Tai language of Thailand and Laos. The Yoy language is now in the critical endangered state due to a rapid language shift, which may eventually lead to...
Yoy is a Tai language of Thailand and Laos. The Yoy language is now in the critical endangered state due to a rapid language shift, which may eventually lead to complete language loss. [3]
Yoy is an endangered indigenous language of Thailand and Laos. It belongs to the Kra-Dai language family. The language is used as a first language by all adults in the ethnic community, but not all young people.
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Their primary language is Yoy. The primary religion practiced by the Yoy is animism, a religious worldview that natural physical entities--including animals, plants, and even inanimate objects--possess a spiritual essence.
All Yoy are adequately bilingual in the national language, Lao. Indeed, to most outsiders there is no visible or cultural differences between the Lao and Yoy. The distinctiveness of the Yoy is confined to their language. Tai Yoy people live in Khammouan Province in central Laos.
The Yoy people are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. [1][2] ^ Hattaway, Paul (2004). Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary. William Carey Library. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-87808-361-9. More than 8,000 Yoy people live on both sides of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.