# Kra

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #82,469

## Definitions
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”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kra