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Bahnaric Languages
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 Katuic languages the closer they are geographically, independently of which branch of the family they belong to, but that Bahnaric and Katuic do not have any shared innovations that would suggest that together they form a branch of the Austroasiatic family, rather forming separate branches. Internal controversy Internal diversity suggests that the family broke up about 3,000 years ago. North Bahnaric is characterized by a register contrast between breathy and modal voice, which in Sedang has tensed to become modal–creaky voice. Lamam is a clan name of the neighboring Tampuon and Kaco’. Sidwell (2009) tentatively classifies the Bahnaric languages into four branches, with Cua (Kor) classified independently as East Bahnaric. Unclassifie ...
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Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, with peninsular Malaysia sometimes also being included. The term Indochina (originally Indo-China) was coined in the early nineteenth century, emphasizing the historical cultural influence of Indian and Chinese civilizations on the area. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam). Today, the term, Mainland Southeast Asia, in contrast to Maritime Southeast Asia, is more commonly referenced. Terminology The origins of the name Indo-China are usually attributed jointly to the Danish-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, who referred to the area as in 1804, and th ...
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Laven Language
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: * Jru' (also spelled ''Jruq)'' * Juk * 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 ...
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Chrau Language
Chrau (also known as Jro, Ro, Tamun, Charuo, Choro, Chíoro) is a Bahnaric language spoken by some of the 22,000 ethnic Cho Ro people in southern Vietnam. Unlike most languages of Southeast Asia, Chrau has no lexical tone, though it does have significant sentence intonation. There are fewer than 20,000 native speakers of Chrau. Most people who speak Chrau are from the Southern parts of Vietnam such as Bien Hoa Bien may refer to: * Bien (newspaper) * Basic Income Earth Network * Bień, Poland {{disambiguation ... and Binh Tuy. The language of Chrau has much Chinese influence, explaining its similarity to many other languages. In the later years after they began to sell crops to others in the area, the influence of Vietnamese would begin to appear in their language. Similarly to the Chinese and Vietnamese language, there are also certain tones in the Chrau language that are emphasized when speaking. Classification The Chrau language is part of the South Bah ...
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Bahnar Language
The Bahnar language or Ba-Na language () is a Central Bahnaric language. It has nine vowel qualities and phonemic vowel length. Subdivisions Đào (1998) lists the following subgroups of Bahnar and their respective locations. *Bahnar Kon Tum: Kon Tum area *Bahnar Jơlong: northeastern Kon Tum Province *Bahnar Golar: northern Pleiku ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Tosung: Mang Yang District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Konkođe: An Khê District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Alatang: An Khê District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Alakông: K'Bang District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Tolo: Kông Chro District and southern An Khê District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Bơnâm: eastern An Khê District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Roh: scattered areas in An Khê District and K'Bang District ( Gia Lai Province) *Bahnar Krem: Vĩnh Thạnh District and An Lão District ( Bình Định Province) *Bahnar Chăm: Vân Canh District ( Bình Định Province) *Bahnar But: forest areas; ...
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Tampuon Language
Tampuan is the language of Tampuan people indigenous to the mountainous regions of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia. As of the 2008 census there were 31,000 speakers, which amounts to 21% of the province's population. It is closely related to Bahnar and Alak, the three of which form the Central Bahnaric language grouping within the Mon-Khmer language family according to traditional classification.Thomas, D. 1979, "The place of Alak, Tampuan, and West Bahnaric", in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, vol. 8, pp. 171-186. Sidwell's more recent classification groups Tampuan on an equal level with Bahnar and the South Bahnaric languages in a larger Central Bahnar group. The Tampuan language has no native writing. EMU International began linguistic research in 1995 and produced an alphabet using Khmer letters. The alphabet was further refined by linguists from International Cooperation for Cambodia (ICC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport (MOEYS). The modified Khmer script wa ...
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Alak Language
Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern Laos, especially in the Provinces of Salavan and Sekong (where the Alak people make up over a fifth of the population). It is closely related to the language spoken by the Bahnars of Vietnam. It includes two dialects, Alak proper and Harak.Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric' (1997), in ''The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal'', volume 27 References External links * https://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903B-B@view Alak in RWAAI Digital Archive Bahnaric languages Languages of Laos {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub ...
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Kassang Language
Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a Bahnaric language spoken by the Jeh-Tariang people 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 i .... 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. 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- ...
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Taliang Language
Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a Bahnaric language spoken by the Jeh-Tariang people 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 i .... 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. 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- ...
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Brao Language
Brao is a Mon–Khmer language of Cambodia and Laos. Phonology Varieties According to Ethnologue, there are four distinct but mutually intelligible varieties, sometimes considered separate languages: Lave (Brao proper), Kru’ng (Kreung), and Kavet (Kravet), the latter spoken by only a couple thousand. Sidwell (2003) also lists four communities of speakers, three of which are in Cambodia. *Laveh (Lave, Rawe): spoken in Attapeu Province, Laos south of the capital city of Attapeu. Laveh is the official designation given by the Laotian government. *Krung (Krüng, "Krung 2"): spoken around Ban Lung in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia *Kavet (Kravet): spoken in Voeun Sai District, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia *Brao (Brou, Palaw, Preou): spoken in and around the town of Taveng in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia Lun, spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia, is related to Lave and Kavet (Philip Lambrecht 2012). Demographics Sidwell (2003) suggests the possibility of a tota ...
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Cheng Language
Oi (''Oy, Oey''; also known as The, Thang Ong, Sok) is an Austroasiatic dialect cluster of Attapeu Province, southern Laos. The dominant variety is Oy proper, with 11,000 speakers who are 80% monolinguals. The Jeng (Cheng) speak the same language but are ethnically distinct (Sidwell 2003). Speakers follow traditional religions. Distribution Some locations where Oi is spoken in include (Sidwell 2003:26): *Ban Sok, 40 km north of Attapeu *Ban Lagnao, 10 km northwest of Attapeu *Ban Inthi, 25 km southwest of Attapeu; speakers claim to have migrated from the Bolaven Plateau The Bolaven Plateau is an elevated region in southern Laos. Most of the plateau is located within Champasak Province of Laos, though the edges of the plateau are also located in Salavan, Sekong and Attapeu Provinces. It is located between ... about 80 years ago, around the time of the Ong Kommandam Rebellion. *Ban Mai, at the southern slope of the Bolaven Plateau *Ban Champao, at t ...
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Sapuan Language
Sapuan (autonym: ''səpuar'') is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the single village of Ban Sapuan, located approximately 40 km north of Attapeu Attapeu ( lo, ອັດຕະປື), also written as Attopu or Attapu, is the capital of Attapeu province, Laos. Its official name is Muang Samakhi Xay. It is the southernmost of provincial capitals in Laos. Most of the inhabitants are Lao Lo .... Jacq and Sidwell (1999) provide a short grammar. Sidwell (2003) reports a population of just under 1,000. Chazée (1999:93) gives a lower estimate of 480. References External links *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 *Jacq, Pascale and Paul Sidwell (1999). "Sapuan (Səpuar)." Lincom Europa. München. * http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle. ...
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Oi Language
Oi (''Oy, Oey''; also known as The, Thang Ong, Sok) is an Austroasiatic dialect cluster of Attapeu Province, southern Laos. The dominant variety is Oy proper, with 11,000 speakers who are 80% monolinguals. The Jeng (Cheng) speak the same language but are ethnically distinct (Sidwell 2003). Speakers follow traditional religions. Distribution Some locations where Oi is spoken in include (Sidwell 2003:26): *Ban Sok, 40 km north of Attapeu *Ban Lagnao, 10 km northwest of Attapeu *Ban Inthi, 25 km southwest of Attapeu; speakers claim to have migrated from the Bolaven Plateau The Bolaven Plateau is an elevated region in southern Laos. Most of the plateau is located within Champasak Province of Laos, though the edges of the plateau are also located in Salavan, Sekong and Attapeu Provinces. It is located between ... about 80 years ago, around the time of the Ong Kommandam Rebellion. *Ban Mai, at the southern slope of the Bolaven Plateau *Ban Champao, at t ...
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