Cheng language
| Jeng | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Laos |
Native speakers | 4,500 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jeg |
| Glottolog |
jeng1241[2] |
Cheng (also known as Jeng, Chieng) is a Mon–Khmer language of southern Laos. Chazée (1999:95) estimates the population at 5,500, while the 1995 Laotian census places the Cheng population at 6,511. Cheng is very closely related to Oi but the speakers consider themselves to be a distinct ethnic group from the Oi (Sidwell 2003).
The Cheng live mostly along the banks of the Sekaman River, in and around Ban Fandeng (Phandɛŋ).
References
- ↑ Jeng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Jeng (Laos)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Sidwell, Paul (2003). A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
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