The 2000 United States census figure of 168, 707 Laotians and the 2005 figure of 200, 000 exclude Hmong, but include Mien, Tai Dam, Khmu and other groups in addition to the Lao.

The two main languages of the Dai are Dai Lü ( Sibsongbanna Dai ) and Dai Nüa ( Daihong Dai ); two other written languages used by the Dai are Tày Pong and Tai Dam.

*** Tai Dam language, Dǎinǎyǔ, 傣哪语 ; Dǎidānyǔ, 傣担语

* Khap Tai Dam ( ຂ ັ ບໄທດຳ, ข ั บไทดำ, IPA: kʰap tʰɑj dam )

The Tai Ahoms believe that after death a person becomes a Dam > Phi or god who goes to reside in the heaven in the same way as he was in his earthly life.

The Tai Dam, Tai Daeng, Phuan, Khmu and Hmong have settled in the province.

Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Phuan belong to the Tai language family, by far the most significant family in Laos, comprising 60 % of the national population.

The Tai Dam migrated from northern Vietnam to Laos 80 – 300 years ago.

Tai Dam are well known producers of fine quality silk and cotton textiles and many women export directly to markets in Japan and the USA.

Old Tai Dam women still wear the traditional blue indigo cotton shirt, skirt and a black turban woven with colored patterns.

Tai Dam settle in upland valleys near streams and irrigable and accessible plains scattered among Lao and Phuan villages.

What makes it unique is that Tai Dam animist tombs are mixed together with Catholic tombstones, Chinese graves and Lao Buddhist reliquary.

Ban Xieng Khio village Tai Dam villages can be found in the upland valley of Kham.

The Tai Dam Cultural Centre showcases the cultural tradition and customs of this minority group.

Tai Dam are well known producers of fine quality silk and cotton fabrics which can be purchased directly by the manufacturers in the village or at Kham Handicraft Group Centre.

Wilson Trail-Stage 6 begins from Tai Po Road to Shing Mun Reservoir Main Dam via Smugglers Ridge ( Ma Tse Keng ).

Beginning in 1975, his administration encouraged Iowans to assist in the settlement of southeast Asian refugees in the state, including Vietnamese Tai Dam and Laotian Hmong refugees.

Tai Dam, also known as Black Tai is a Tai language spoken by the Tai Dam in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China ( mostly in the Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County ).

* Tai Don: Also known as the " White Tai.

) Also located in Tai Po: * The Hong Kong Railway Museum * The Hong Kong Institute of Education * Island House * Tai Po Waterfront Park * Tai Po Sports Ground

" A Critical Look at a New ' Key ' to Evangelization ," Evangelical Missions Quarterly, 31 / 2 ( 1995 ), pp. 152-162. contra view ( Also see Tai M. Yip, " Spiritual Mapping: Another Approach ", pro view in the same edition ).

; Côte d ' Ivoire ebolavirus ( CIEBOV ): Also referred to as Tai ebolavirus and by the English place name, " Ivory Coast ", it was first discovered among chimpanzees from the Tai Forest in Côte d ' Ivoire, Africa, in 1994.

Also known as the " Venice of Hong Kong ", Tai O is also a hot tourist spot for both foreigners and residents of other parts of Hong Kong, despite damage by a fire in July 2000.

The Tai – Kadai languages, also known as Daic, Kadai, Kradai, or Kra – Dai, are a language family of highly tonal languages found in southern China and Southeast Asia.

A large number of Tai people, known as the Zhuang, still live in Guangxi today.

Lee was trained in Wu Tai Chi Chuan ( also known as Ng-ga ) and Jing Mo Tam Tui for the twelve sets.

Recent work by scholars such as Ekki Lu, Sakai Toru, and Lí Khîn-hoāⁿ ( also known as Tavokan Khîn-hoāⁿ or Chin-An Li ), based on former research by scholars such as Ông Io ̍ k-tek, has gone so far as to associate part of the basic vocabulary of the colloquial Taiwanese with the Austronesian and Tai language families ; however, such claims are controversial.

Another well known God is Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa he is the god of WAR he is so powerful that where ever or who ever he passes there will be chaos and War will begin, It is said that the god of war is the one who started world war 2 and lead the Germans to Samoa to destroy the village that is said to have imprisoned the god, The god of war has died, but when a god or goddess dies it is reincarnated into another soul and we think that it would be Jamal Tai Tofolonga Nofoal ' ii Tokelau Misifoa because his family was realated to the god of war, but who knows if the legend is true.

Anthropologists have determined that these people were related to the people now known as the Tai.

The island was also known as Tai Hai Shan ( 大奚山 ) before it became known as Lantau Island.

Descended from ancient peoples known to the Chinese as the Yue and the Ai Lao, the Tai tribes began migrating into South-East Asia by the beginning of the 1st millennium, but large-scale migrations took place between the 7th and 13th centuries AD, especially from what is now Sipsongbanna, Yunnan Province and Guangxi.

Chanthaphanit and his son had long reigns, during which the town became known by the Tai name Xieng Dong Xieng Thong.

The Tai throughout Asia celebrate a number of common festivals, including a holiday known as Songkran, which originally marked the vernal equinox, but is now celebrated on the 13th of April every year.

With the Buyi, Tay – Nùng, and other northern Tai speakers, they are sometimes known as the Rau or Rao.

The Mendocino Joss House, a historical landmark also known as Mo Dai Miu, The Military God-King's Temple, or Temple of Kwan Tai, built in 1852, is a typical example of the small shrines erected to Guan Yu in America.

It established a second campus in Whangarei, known as the Tai Tokerau Campus, and outposts at Kaikohe, Rotorua and Tokoroa.

* Huang Chuping, also known as Wong Tai Sin, a Taoist deity

Tsang Tai Uk ( 曾大屋 ), also known as Shan Ha Wai, is another well-known Hakka walled village in Hong Kong, and one of the best preserved.

* Chik Chuen Wai ( 積存圍 ), commonly known as " Tai Wai " ( 大圍 ), and located in Tai Wai

Tsang Tai Uk ( 曾大屋 or " Big House of the Tsangs "), also known as Shan Ha Wai (" Walled Village at the Mountain's Foot "), is a Hakka walled village in Hong Kong, and one of the best preserved.

Wong Tai Sin Temple () is a well known shrine and major tourist attraction in Hong Kong.