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Kra

The English word “Kra” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. A branch of the Kra-Dai language family spoken in southern China and northern Vietnam.

Etymology

Coined by Thai linguist Weera Ostapirat in 1999 from a reconstruction of a Proto-Kra endonym cognate with Thai ข้า (kâa, “slave”).

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