Quảng Lâm is an unclassified, poorly attested
Austroasiatic
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language spoken in
Quảng Lâm commune,
Mường Nhé District,
Điện Biên Province, northwestern
Vietnam
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. Nguyễn Văn Huy (1975) is the only published resource contain data of Quang Lam. The
Ethnologue
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lists Quang Lam as an alternate name for Kháng.
Quang Lam speakers are officially classified as ethnic
Khang people Khang may refer to:
*Khang people, a people of northwestern Vietnam
*Kháng language
Kháng (), also known as Mang U’, is an Austroasiatic language of Vietnam. It is closely related to the Bumang language of southern Yunnan, China.
Classifi ...
.
Classification
Nguyen (1975) speculates that Quang Lam may be closely related to
Kháng (variously classified as either a
Palaungic
The nearly thirty Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages.
Phonological developments
Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austroasiatic consonants, with the disti ...
or
Khmuic
The Khmuic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken mostly in northern Laos, as well as in neighboring northern Vietnam and southern Yunnan, China. Khmu language, Khmu is the only widely spoken language in the group.
Homelan ...
language), but this has yet to be verified. Data is scanty and presented only in
Vietnamese orthography (''Quốc Ngữ''). Quang Lam speakers claim to not have an autonym, and simply call themselves "Brển Quảng Lâm." Their word for 'person, human' is ''p'xinh'', which is also a name for
Bit
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(Psing).
Phonology
Nguyen (1975:431) lists the following Quang Lam complex consonant onsets in
Vietnamese orthography: s'n, p'x, p's, p'k', p'r, th'l, chơr, s'ch, s'i, k'r, k'ch, m'r, l'm, r'v, d'd, r'l.
See also
*
Quang Lam word list (Wiktionary)
References
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{{Austroasiatic languages
Languages of Vietnam
Palaungic languages
Khmuic languages