语（，；）是耶語（，，，或，；）在緬語和英語中的通稱。傣耶語是傣耶人（掸族）最主要的语言，掸邦的官方语言之一，也是德宏傣族景頗族自治州一種傣族方言，在其它傣語支語言中時稱「堯語」（，，，）。

簡述
说掸语的人自称大傣(Tai Yai或Tai Long)。“掸”是他称，可能是暹罗一词的讹传。

掸语與傣那语非常接近。属台语支的西南部语群。

南撣邦的掸语（傣耶語）一般用傣耶文書寫，傣耶文非常接近缅文，與中國的傣绷文相同。20世纪60年代之前使用的老傣耶文還不能完整地记录掸语的语音。现行的傣耶文和语音对应良好。北掸邦接近克欽的地區的掸语（傣耶語）使用傣卯文，與東克欽、德宏的傣那文是同一文種；東撣邦的掸语（傣耶語）和傣痕語共用曇摩文，即西雙版納老傣文。

撣語音系
輔音
撣語有19個輔音。與泰語和老撾語不同，撣語沒有和兩個濁口腔塞音，古內爆濁音今讀濁鼻塞音。

:1 聲門爆破音一般標記在未終止的短元音後，或者在一個元音前的無聲“a”。
:2 開頭的只見於某些方言詞中，其他方言區一般發音為。
:3 顫音很少見，一般用於英語或巴利語外來詞中。很多撣族人不會發這個音，有時發作為替代。

元音
撣語有10個元音，13個雙元音：

和泰語相比，撣語的元音的比較簡單。撣族人在學習泰語時很難發出ia、ua、uea（）等雙元音。此外，撣語沒有三元音，在長元音和短元音方面也沒有泰語那樣系統性的區別。

聲調
撣語的元音有，兩者的聲調有所不同。根據方言差異，撣語有五個或六個聲調。第六個聲調只在北部方言出現。

自由元音音節的聲調對比
下表是六個自由元音音節表示的聲調，即以[m]、[n]、[ŋ]、[w]等響音結尾的閉音節，和以[j]結尾的開音節。

:* The symbol in the first column corresponds to conventions used for other tonal languages; the second is derived from the Shan orthography.

下表是具體音位的聲調示例:

撣語聲調與泰語聲調對應，如下所示:

撣語的升調接近泰語的升調。

The Shan low tone is equivalent to the Thai low tone.

The Shan mid-tone is different from the Thai mid-tone. It falls in the end.

The Shan high tone is close to the Thai high tone. But it is not rising.

The Shan falling tone is different from the Thai falling tone. It is short, creaky and ends with a glottal stop.

抑止元音音節的聲調對比
下表是四個抑止元音音節（入聲）表示的聲調，即以聲門塞音[ʔ]及[p]、[t]、[k]三個阻礙音結尾的閉音節。

音节结构
The syllable structure of Shan is C(G)V((V)/(C)), which is to say the onset consists of a consonant optionally followed by a glide, and the rhyme consists of a monophthong alone, a monophthong with a consonant, or a diphthong alone. (Only in some dialects, a diphthong may also be followed by a consonant.)
The glides are: -w-, -y- and -r-.
There are seven possible final consonants: , , , , , , and .

Some representative words are:
CV also*
CVC market*
CGV to go*
CGVC broad*
CVV far*
CGVV water buffalo*

Typical Shan words are monosyllabic. Multisyllabic words are mostly Pali loanwords, or Burmese words with the initial weak syllable .

注释
參考文獻

The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia. Bernard Comrie (London, 1990).
A Guide to the World's Languages. Merritt Ruhlen (Stanford, 1991).
Shan for English Speakers. Irving I. Glick & Sao Tern Moeng (Dunwoody Press, Wheaton, 1991).
Shan - English Dictionary. Sao Tern Moeng (Dunwoody Press, Kensington, 1995).
An English and Shan Dictionary. H. W. Mix (American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon, 1920; Revised edition by S.H.A.N., Chiang Mai, 2001).
Grammar of the Shan Language. J. N. Cushing (American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon, 1887).

掸语

撣語的升調接近泰語的升調。

The Shan low tone is equivalent to the Thai low tone.

The Shan mid-tone is different from the Thai mid-tone. It falls in the end.

The Shan high tone is close to the Thai high tone. But it is not rising.

The Shan falling tone is different from the Thai falling tone. It is short, creaky and ends with a glottal stop.

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