Todrah is an
Austroasiatic language
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are th ...
of
Vietnam
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. The two dialects, Sodrah and Xodrah, are quite distinct. Speakers are officially classified by the Vietnamese government as
Sedang people
The Sedang people (In Vietnamese: Xê Đăng or Xơ Đăng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam. They mainly inhabit the Kon Tum province, Quảng Nam province (Trà My and Phước Sơn districts), Quảng Ngãi province (Sơn Tây district). They ...
.
Todrah contrasts
clear,
breathy and
laryngeal vowels.
Distribution
Todrah (Sơ-Drá, Xơtrá, SơRá) is spoken in
Đắk Glei District,
Kon Tum
Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia.
History
After the People's Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam on March 30, 1 ...
town, and
Kon Plông District
Kon may refer to:
Places
* Koń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
* Kon Tum province, Vietnam
:*Kon Tum, capital of Kon Tum province, Vietnam.
* Karkhaneh-ye Sefid Kon, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
* Kon, India, a town in ...
of
Kon Tum Province (Le et al. 2014:175)
[Lê Bá Thảo, Hoàng Ma, et al.; Viện hàn lâm khoa học xã hội Việt Nam - Viện dân tộc học. 2014. ''Các dân tộc ít người ở Việt Nam: các tỉnh phía nam''. Ha Noi: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội. ]
According to ''
Ethnologue
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'', it is spoken northeast of
Kon Tum
Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia.
History
After the People's Army of Vietnam invaded South Vietnam on March 30, 1 ...
city, from Kon Hring to Kon Braih.
References
Languages of Vietnam
Bahnaric languages
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