The purpose of this research was to study The Feature of Tai Grammar of Mong Nawng dialects on phrase and clause level. The desired outcome of this research is the understanding of some aspects of Tai Grammar.

                 The results of the study reveal that the Tai of Mueng Naung has 18 consonant phonemes / p, t, k, ?, p^h, t^h, k^h, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, r, l, s, c, h, w, j / and 8 of them /-p, -t, -k, -m, -n, -ŋ, -w, -j/ are found in the final position. The 3 consonant clusters are / l, w, j, /.

                 There are 11 vowels in Tai, 10 monophthongs / i, e, ɛ, ɯ, ә , a, a:, u, o, ↄ, / and 1 diphthong /aɯ /.

             The 5 tones in Tai are 1) a rising tone 2) a low tone 3) a mid tone 4) a high tone and 5) a falling tone.  .

                 Tai words are formed by nominalization, compounding, reduplication and expressive without changing the word’s original forms.

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