Chrau language
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| Chrau | |
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| Native to | Vietnam |
| Region | Đồng Nai, Tây Ninh, and Bình Dương provinces |
| Ethnicity | Chrau people |
Native speakers | 7,000 (1995 census)[1] |
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Austroasiatic
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | crw |
Chrau /ˈtʃraʊ/[2] is a Bahnaric language spoken by some 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.[3]
References
- ↑ Chrau reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ↑ Thomas, Dorothy M. (1966). "Chrau intonation". Mon–Khmer Studies 2: 1–13.
Further reading
- Cheeseman, Nathaniel; Herington, Jennifer; Sidwell, Paul (2013). ''Bahnaric linguistic bibliography with selected annotations. Mon-Khmer Studies vol. 42 Mahidol University and SIL International.
- Thomas, D. D. (1967). Chrau grammar; a Mon–Khmer language of Vietnam.
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