Hlai Language
Hlai (Chinese: 黎语) is one of two languages of the Hlai or Li people, the other being the Jiamao "dialect". It is spoken by 600,000 people (not counting Jiamao), a quarter of them monolingual, in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan Island. It forms one of the primary branches of the family of Tai–Kadai languages.
Hlai did not have a writing system until the 1950s, when the Latin script was adopted.
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