Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
, especially in the Provinces of
Salavan and
Sekong
Sekong (or ''Xekong''; Lao ເຊກອງ) is the capital city of Sekong Province, Sekong District, Laos. It was created in 1984 after it was ascertained that Ban Phon's unexploded ordnance made it uninhabitable.
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(where the
Alak people
The Alak or Hrlak are an Austroasiatic ethnic group of southern Laos, living mainly in Salavan Province. They speak the Alak language. Little is known of their history, though as an Austroasiatic-speaking group, their origin is presumably in t ...
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
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