The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .

Thái people (Vietnamese: Người Thái) in Vietnam are officially recognized by the Vietnamese government as one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. They are Tai ethnic groups that speak various Tai languages and use the Tai Viet script.

Those who resettled in Laos lived there peacefully through 1975 and became known as Tai Dam. In 1975, when the Communists took over Laos, the Tai Dam fled to Thailand to seek asylum. From Thailand, 12,000 Tai Dam were resettled in France, Canada, Australia, and …

The birthplace of the current generation of Tai people lies in four Northwestern provinces of Vietnam – Lai Chau, Son La, Lao Cai, and Yen Bai. This region was once called “Sip Song Chau Tai” or the Twelve Tai Principalities. The Tai people simply call it “Muong Tai” or the “Tai Country”.

majority of Tai Dam are found in northern Vietnam where approximately half a million live around the city of Dien Bien Phu. They also extend into nearby areas of Laos and “to the south-west into central Thailand due to conquest and deportation by the (Bangkok) Thai in the early nineteenth century.”1 Most of the 50,000 Tai Dam now living in ...

Tai Dam is spoken in Vietnam, China, Laos, and Thailand. In central and western Thailand, it is known as Thai Song. Tai Dam speakers in China are classified as part of the Dai nationality along with almost all the other Tai peoples.

Nov 6, 2022 · Tai Dam are an ethnic minority group who considered Northwestern Vietnam to be their homeland. As communism descended on South Vietnam and Laos in the early 70s the Tai Dam feared retaliation for their anticommunist past.

Tai Dam is a Southwestern Tai language spoken mainly in Vietnam and also Laos, Thailand and China. In Vietnam Tai Dam is spoken by about 699,000 people in the provinces of Dat Lak, Dien Bien, Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Phu Tho, Son La, Yen Bai, Gia Lai and Thanh Hoa.

Dec 12, 2024 · The Tai Dam, Tai Dum or Black Tai (Thai : ไทดำ) are an ethnic group of Vietnam (Thái Đen), Laos, China, and Thailand . Tai Dam speakers in China are classified as part of the Dai nationality along with almost all the other Tai peoples.

In addition to cultural and historical projects, the TSC is supporting Tai Dam students for higher education, and engaged in economic and humanitarian projects directed towards the Tai people living in Northwest Vietnam.