Phake language

The Phake language or Tai Phake language (တႝၸႃကေ, tai phākae) is a Tai language spoken in the Buri Dihing Valley of Assam, India. It is closely related to the other Southwestern Tai languages in Assam: Aiton, Khamti, Khamyang, and Turung.

Distribution
Buragohain (1998) lists the following Tai Phake villages.
 * Man Phake Tau (Namphake village, Assam)
 * Man Tipam (Tipam Phake village, Assam)
 * Man Phake Neu (Bor Phake village, Assam)
 * Man Mo (Man Mo village, Assam)
 * Man Phaneng (Phaneng village, Assam)
 * Man Long (Long village, Assam)
 * Man Nonglai (Nonglaui village, Assam)
 * Man Monglang (Monglang village, Assam)
 * Man Nigam (Nigam village, Assam)
 * Man Wagun (Wagun village, Arunachal Pradesh)
 * Man Lung Kung (Lung Kung village, Arunachal Pradesh)

The corresponds to the modern Thai ban (บ้าน) and Shan wan (ဝၢၼ်ႈ), which mean 'village'. (Note: For an explanation of the notation system for Tai tones, see Proto-Tai language.)

Initial consonants
Tai Phake has the following initial consonants

Final consonants
Tai Phake has the following final consonants:

-[w] occurs after front vowels and [a]-, -[j] occurs after back vowels and [a]-.

Vowels
Tai Phake has the following vowel inventory:

Writing system
The Tai Phake have their own writing system called 'Lik-Tai', which they share with the Khamti people and Tai Aiton people. It closely resembles the Northern Shan script of Myanmar, which is a variant of the Burmese script, with some of the letters taking divergent shapes.

Consonants

 * က - kaa - k - [k]
 * ၵ - khaa - kh - [kʰ]
 * င - ngaa - ng - [ŋ]
 * ꩡ - chaa - ch - [t͡ʃ], [t͡s]
 * ꩬ - saaa - s - [s]
 * ၺ - nyaa - ny - [ɲ]
 * တ - taa - t - [t]
 * ထ - thaa - th - [tʰ]
 * ꩫ - naa - n - [n]
 * ပ - paa - p - [p]
 * ၸ - phaa - ph - [pʰ]
 * မ - maa - m - [m]
 * ယ - yaa - y - [j]
 * လ - laa - l - [l]
 * ဝ - waa - w - [w~v]
 * ꩭ - haa - h - [h]
 * ဢ - aa - a - [ʔ]

Vowels

 * ႊ - a - [a]
 * ႃ - ā - [aː]
 * ိ - i - [i]
 * ီ - ī - [iː]
 * ု - u - [u]
 * ူ - ū - [uː]
 * ေ - e/ae - [eː/ɛ]
 * ႝ - ai - [ai]
 * ေႃ - o/aw - [oː/ɔː]
 * ံ - ṁ - [am]
 * ုံ - um - [um]
 * ွံ - om - [ɔm]
 * ိုဝ် - eu - [ɛu]
 * ်ႍ - au - [au]
 * ်ွ - āu - [aːu]
 * ွ - aw - [ɒ]
 * ွႝ - oi - [oj]
 * ် - final consonant