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Bahnaric 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 ...
language of northeastern Cambodia. Kraol, Thmon, Khaonh, and
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all have about 70% lexical similarity with Stieng, a Southern Bahnaric language (Barr & Pawley 2013:32). The Thmon live in Memom village,
Kaoh Nheaek District Kaoh Nheaek ( km, កោះញែក, ) is a district (''srok'') in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern ...
, Mondulkiri Province. They had moved to Memom village from Benam village, Kotol commune,
Sambour District Sambour is a district located in Kratié province, in Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsul ...
, Kratie Province in 1973 due to war (Barr & Pawley 2013:28).


References

*Barr, Julie and Eric Pawley. 2013.
Bahnaric Language Cluster survey of Mondul Kiri and Kratie Provinces, Cambodia
'. SIL International. Bahnaric languages Languages of Cambodia {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub