Maleng (autonym: /malɛ̤ŋ²/), also known as Pakatan and Bo, is a Vietic language of Laos and Vietnam. Maleng has the four-way

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Mon-Khmer Languages Project. ''Malieng'', despite having the same name as Maleng, is a dialect of Chut (Chamberlain 2003, Sidwell 2009).

Varieties

Maleng consists of three dialect clusters: *Maleng (Mã Liềng); Kha Pakatan; Malang; Arem/Harème (Rivière 1902). Sub-varieties include Kha Muong Ben and Kha Bo (Fraisse 1950). *Ma Lieng, also known as Pa Leng (Đặng Nghiêm Vạn et al. 1986) *Kha Phong (formerly an exonym, but now also used as an autonym); Maleng Kari; Maleng Bro. Also known as Kha Nam Om (Fraisse 1949). The Kha Phong live in 2 to 3 villages in Laos, and in one village in Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam. Strongly influenced by Lao. Maleng Bro was documented by

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in 1992 (see Ferlus 1997), and also by the 2012-2013 Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition.

Distribution

Maleng is spoken in the following villages of Laos and Vietnam.Babaev, Kirill Vladimirovich �абаев, Кирилл Владимирович Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna �амарина, Ирина Владимировна 2019. Язык май. Материалы Российско-вьетнамской лингвистической экспедиции / ''Jazyk maj. Materialy Rossijsko-vetnamskoj lingvisticheskoj ekspeditsii''. Moscow
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References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20120321112336/http://cema.gov.vn/modules.php?name=Content&op=details&mid=493 {{Austro-Asiatic languages Languages of Laos Languages of Vietnam Vietic languages