However, it has been attested that language vitality as a whole (including the majority speakers in Yunnan Province) is high and "likely to be spoken by future generations".

A related but separate Tai language called Dǎi Jīnpíng (金平傣语) is spoken in Jinping County (金平县), Honghe Prefecture (红河州), which Zhou (2001) reports as having 15,400 speakers.

Heipu 黑蒲 (autonym: Kalang 卡郎 kʰa³³lun²¹; also called Baiyi 摆彝 by the Han Chinese) is a variety of Tai Ya (傣雅) spoken by 118 people in the two villages[6] of Shitouzhai (石头寨[7]) and Xiaomiao (小庙[8]) in Panlong Township (盘龙乡), District 5 (五区), Xinping County, Yunnan (You 2013:268).

[9] Heipu (黑蒲) is a Han Chinese exonym referring to their practice of teeth blackening.

[9] It is mutually intelligible with Tai Ya as spoken in District 4 (四区) of Xinping County.