Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a
Bahnaric language
The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Paul Sidwell notes that Austroasiatic/Mon–Khmer languages are lexically more similar to Bahnaric and Katui ...
spoken by the
Jeh-Tariang people
The Jeh-Tariang people, also written as Gie Trieng people ( vi, người Giẻ Triêng) are an ethnic group in Vietnam. Most Jeh-Tariang live in the province of Kon Tum, in Vietnam's Central Highlands region, and in 2019 the population was 63,3 ...
of
Laos and
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
. It is possibly related to the
Stieng language of Vietnam and Cambodia.
There are various languages that have gone by the name ''Taliang/Trieng'', which means 'headhunters'; SEALang classifies two of these as dialects of the same language as Kasseng.
SEALang SALA: Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives
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Further reading
The Institute for Cultural Research. Ministry of Information and Culture. 2003. The Life and House of the Tariang People. Sponsored by: The Japan Foundation Asia Center.
References
External links
* http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
* http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903A-0@view Talieng in RWAAI Digital Archive
Bahnaric languages
Languages of Vietnam
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