Mnong language
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Mnong | ||
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Spoken in: | Vietnam, Cambodia and USA | |
Region: | throughout Tây Nguyên region, especially in Đắk Lắk, Lâm Đồng, Đắk Nông and Bình Phước provinces; Mondulkiri in Cambodia | |
Total speakers: | 120,000 | |
Language family: | Austro-Asiatic Mon-Khmer Eastern Mon-Khmer Bahnaric Central Bahnaric South-Central Bahnaric South Bahnaric Mnong |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | mkh | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | variously: cmo — Central Mnong mng — Eastern Mnong mnn — Southern Mnong |
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The Mnong language is the language spoken by the different groups of Mnong in Vietnam. Three groups exist called Central, Eastern and Southern Mnong, who do not understand each others dialects. The language was studied first by the linguist Richard Phillips in the early 1970s.