Tai Phake is a Southwestern Tai language spoken in the state of Assam in the northeast of India, mainly in the Buri Dihing Valley in the Dibrugarh district, and also in Arunachal Pradesh state. In 2007 there were about 2,000 speakers of Tai Phake, which is also known as Faake, Fakial, Phakey, Phakial or Phake.
Tai Phake is written with a version of the Myanmar / Burmese alphabet known as Lik Tai. It is based on the alphabet used for Northern Shan in Myanmar / Burma.
Download an alphabet chart for Tai Phake (Excel)
Details provided by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com)
Information about Tai Phake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Phake_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/phk
https://www.academia.edu/34791306/_2017_Myanmar_based_Khamti_Shan_Orthography
https://www.bloggang.com/
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