| Language name: | YAY |
| UPSID number: | 2402 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, Li-Kam-Tai |
| This language has | 34 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.389200470 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p ph b "t "th "d c ch k kh ? m "n nj N f 0D "s h "l "rr j i E "@ a a: O u uu w ia uua ua |
| Comment: | 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. |
| Source(s): | Gedney, W.J. 1965. Yay, a Northern Tai language in North Vietnam. Lingua 14: 180-93. |