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Taiphake :

The Six Tai Races residing in Assam are The Tai Phake, The Tai Khamti, The Tai Aiton, The Tai Khamyang, The Tai Turung, & the Tai Ahom. Lik Khow Moung, the Tai Phake Treatise, also called Buranji furnishes a complete account in Tai Phake script about the genealogical and also the migration of the Tai Phake people.
Yun-Nan & Yun-Nan of China was then known as Moung Mao, the kingdom of the Tais. The kingdom of Moung-Mou had four princes. Seukapha, Seukhanpha, Seupatha, & Seuchatpha. These four princes, in order to expand their kingdom & well being of the people and with a strong desire for a dream kingdom of their own resolved to set out a journey taking along a group of nobles, general army, and large group of people.

The group led by Second Prince Seukhanpha, moved into northern direction & established his kingdom in the place called Moung-Kwang. The king ordered the Phakes who came along the group to settle down on their own start their livelihood in a place called Hu-Kawng, closed to then Burma. The Phake thereby established their principality in Hukawng valley in 1215 A.D. in consensus to the king's order. The Tai Phakes resided here 400 years. The entire Hukawng Valley came under the supremacy of the king of Burma.

In order to salvage themselves from the inhuman oppression of the king, Phakes abandoned their erstwhile home Hukawng & almost immediately on their quest to establish in some place an independent kingdom of their own, directed their steps towards the green valley of Assam in 1775.

At about that time the English brought their western culture and spread its rays in Assam and started their rule here. Then the Phakes who had come to Assam after a lot of hurdles settled in various places of Assam favoured by the English & embraced Assam as their motherland. The Phakes then introduced themselves a Phake Yat, that gradually changed to Phayal and from Phakeyal to finally Phakial. The Tai Phake who came out of their own country in order to set up an independent kingdom replete with happiness, had to undergo a lot of hardship and danger. In spite of all these extreme difficulties these people did not allow the hope for their golden dream to die in their mind.

LANGUAGE:

The Phakials are bilingual. They speak Phakial among themselves and speak Assamese with an outsider. They have their own separate scripts and also have preserved manuscripts. Most of them are religious scriptures.
 
The Phalkial language has ten vowel phonemes, fifteen consonant phonemes, two semi vowels, a few diphthongs, and three consonant clusters.
 
It is a tonal language and retains six prominent tones-rising, falling, high (mid), low high (falling) & low (mid). It is also monosyllabic. Suffixes are added to retains the monosyllabic quality of the words. The Phakials also have a sound knowledge of Pali language.






 

 



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