Cheq Wong (Ceq Wong, Chewong) 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 t ...

spoken in the Malay Peninsula. It belongs to the Northern subbranch of the

Aslian languages The Aslian languages () are the southernmost branch of Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Malay Peninsula. They are the languages of many of the ''Orang Asli'', the aboriginal inhabitants of the peninsula. The total number of native speakers o ...

. Northern Aslian was labelled Jehaic in the past.

References

*Howell, S. (1984). ''Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia''. Singapore: Oxford University Press. *Howell, S. (1982). ''Chewong myths and legends''. Kuala Lumpur: Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works. *Kruspe, N., N. Burenhult & E. Wnuk. (2014). Northern Aslian. In: P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (eds.) The Handbook of Austroasiatic languages. 419-474. Brill Publishers. *Kruspe, N. (2009). Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.) Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook of lexical borrowing. 659-685. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

External links

Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database (WOLD). Munich: Max Planck Digital Library
*http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6702-D@view Ceq Wong in RWAAI Digital Archive *ELAR archive o
Ceq Wong (and Mah Meri) language documentation materials
Languages of Malaysia Aslian languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub

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