Laven is a
Mon–Khmer
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 ...
dialect cluster of southern
Laos. Laven is the exonym given by the Laotian government, while the autonym of many of those speakers is Jru' . Varieties are:
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Jru' (also spelled ''Jruq)''
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Juk
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Su' (also spelled ''Suq)''
Laven varieties are described in detail by Therapan L-Thongkum and Paul Sidwell (2003).
Further reading
*Sidwell, Paul. 2019.
Reconstructing language contact and social change on Boloven Plateau, Laos'. Presented at ALMSEA (The Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia), University of Sydney, Aug. 19-20.
Slides.
References
*Sidwell, Paul (2003).
A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric'. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Bahnaric languages
Languages of Laos
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