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Lai2|laɪ|
[Local name.]
A Mongoloid people living in the Chin hills of Burma; a member of this people; also, the language spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1896Carey & Tuck Chin Hills I. i. i. 3 The Northern Chins call themselves Yo, the Tashons, Haka, and more southern tribes Lai. Ibid. iii. 23 The Hakas call themselves Lai, and Yo is the general name by which the Chins call their race. Ibid. xiv. 152 The clans which claim the title of Lais are the Hakas, Klang-klangs, Yokwas... The first two are universally acknowledged as Lais, and refuse to admit that the others belong to their race. 1897A. G. E. Newland Pract. Hand-bk. Lang. Lais 1 The Lais are the great tribe and its offshoots that occupy the Chin Hills... The language of these people is the Lai language, called by the Burmese Baungshè, by which term we have hitherto known it. Dialects of it are spoken by all the surrounding tribes, but nearly all understand the Lai tongue. Ibid. 3 Unlike the Southern Chin language, it will be found that the consonants ‘f’ and ‘r’ are both used in the Lai speech. 1906J. G. Scott Burma i. 106 The Tashôn tribe is..the most numerous, and next to them come the Hakas, also called the Lai... Lai is said to be likely to become the lingua franca of the Chin Hills. 1924C. M. Enriquez Races Burma iii. 15 The Haka (a group of about ten villages including the parent village) claim to be the only true Lai. Ibid. vii. 43 The Lai tribes are controlled..by Chiefs. 1963F. K. Lehman Struct. Chin Soc. i. 30 The Haka villagers call themselves lai, thinking of themselves as better than their cultural near relations to the South. |