Laha language

Not to be confused with Laha language (Indonesia).
Laha
Region Vietnam
Ethnicity 8,200 Laha (2009 census)[1]
Native speakers
5,700 (1999 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lha
Glottolog laha1250[2]

Laha (Chinese: 拉哈, Vietnamese: La Ha) is a Kra language spoken by approximately 1,400 people out of a total population of 5,686 Laha. It is spoken in Lào Cai and Sơn La provinces, Vietnam. Laha dialects had been documented in 1986 by Russian linguists and in 1996 by American linguist Jerold A. Edmondson. Many Laha can also converse in the Khmu language, and Laha-speaking areas also have significant Black Thai (Tai Dam), Kháng, Ksongmul (Ksingmul, Xinh-mun), and Hmong populations.

Ostapirat (2000) considers the Laha dialects to form a subgroup of their own (Southern Kra) within the Kra branch.[3]

Geographic distribution

Wet Laha (Laha Ung, la˧ha˨˩ ʔuŋ˧˩) of Lào Cai and Lai Châu

Dry Laha (Laha Phlao) of Sơn La around the Sông Đà and Nậm Mu Rivers

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Laha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Laha (Viet Nam)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Ostapirat, Weera (2000). "Proto-Kra". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 23 (1): 1-251

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