Pear language

Pear
Por
Pronunciation [peə]
Native to Cambodia
Region Preah Vihear (formerly part of Kampong Thom)
Native speakers
1,700  (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pcb
Glottolog pear1247[2]

Pear is an endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia. "Pear" is a pejorative term for the historical slave caste of the Khmer, but nonetheless is the usual term in the literature.

References

  1. Pear at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pear". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.