noun
a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
• Syn: ↑Kadai, ↑Kadai language
• Hypernyms: ↑Sino-Tibetan, ↑Sino-Tibetan language
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/kahm"tuy"/, n.
a linguistic family including Kam and related languages as well as the Tai and Kadai groups.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.