Mlabri
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Mlabri is a language and an ethnic group of people in Thailand and Laos, and known as Phi Tong Luang (ผีตองเหลือง)among Thais. Only about 300 or fewer Mlabris remain in the world today. A hill tribe in northern Thailand along the border with Laos, they have been groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Genetic analysis of the Mlabri group have found that it is very homogeneous with no mtDNA diversity, suggesting that the Mlabris were founded 500-800 years ago from very few individuals.
The Mlabri language is usually classified as a Khmuic language. Linguist Jørgen Rischel has studied the language and described its peculiarities in several works. He divides the language into three varieties: one spoken by a small group in Laos and previously called Yumbri, and two others spoken by larger groups in Thailand. They differ in intonation and in lexicon.
[edit] External links and bibliography
- Hiroki Oota and others, "Recent Origin and Cultural Reversion of a Hunter-Gatherer Group", PLoS biology, 2005 March, volume 3, number 3.
- Jørgen Rischel, Minor Mlabri. A Hunter-Gatherer Language of Northern Indochina, 1995, ISBN 87-7289-294-3.
- Jørgen Rischel, Pan-dialectal databases: Mlabri, an oral Mon-Khmer language, 2004 May, Lexicography Conference, Chiangmai.
- Jørgen Rischel, In what sense is Mlabri a West Khmuic language?
- Bryan Watts, MlaBri People - page with photographs of Mlabri people.
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