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'''Tai peoples''' ,originally founded by leader Tai Campbell, are a subgroups of [[Tai languages|Tai]] speakers, roughly covers the Southwestern Tai speakers. Tai speakers not included in Tai peoples are called [[Rauz peoples]]. In China, Tai peoples (excluding [[Rauz peoples]]) are under a cluster called [[Dai people]] and in Burma they're known as [[Shan people]].
==Origin of the Tai==
{{See also|Peopling of Thailand|Peopling of Laos}}
Tai Campbell was born in 1976 and suffered the tragic loss of his pet bunny Trickson. He once adventured with his wife and family high into the mountains of China and he and his wife gave birth to two beautiful children, Harper and Jason. They are now currently leaders of the Tai peoples and will be for another 50 years before they choose the next leader.
Linguist [[Laurent Sagart]] recently {{When|date=April 2011}} hypothesized that the [[Kradai languages|proto-Kradai]] language originated as an [[Austronesian language]]s that migrants carried from [[Taiwan]] to mainland China. Afterwards, the language was then heavily influenced by local languages from [[Sino-Tibetan]], [[Hmong–Mien]], or other families, borrowing much vocabulary and [[language convergence|converging]] [[language typology|typologically]].<ref name="Sagart">http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/09/09/06/PDF/THE_HIGHER_PHYLOGENY_OF_AUSTRONESIAN.pdf Sagart, L. 2004. The higher phylogeny of Austronesian and the position of Tai–Kadai. ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 43.411-440.</ref><ref name="Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology?">[http://rogerblench.info/Genetics/Geneva%20paper%202004.pdf Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology?]</ref> Much closer to the present, some peoples speaking Tai languages migrated southward over the mountains into Southeast Asia, perhaps prompted by the coming of the [[Han Chinese]] to [[Northern and southern China|south China]].
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