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 639-3: | variously: cmo – Central Mnong mng – Eastern Mnong mnn – Southern Mnong |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Mnong language belongs to the Mon-Khmer language family. It is spoken by the different groups of Mnong in Vietnam and a Mnong group in Cambodia. Four major dialects exist: Central, Eastern and Southern Mnong (all spoken in Vietnam), and Kraol (spoken in Cambodia). Within a dialect group, members do not understand other dialects. Mnong language was studied first by the linguist Richard Phillips in the early 1970s.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ Harry Leonard Shorto, Jeremy Hugh Chauncy, Shane Davidson (1991). Austroasiatic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 0728601834.
- ^ Language Family Trees. ethnologue.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.
[edit] Further reading
- Blood, Henry Florentine. A Reconstruction of Proto-Mnong. Waxhaw, N.C.: Wycliffe-JAARS Print Shop, 1968.
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