Riang language
Riang | |
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Native to | Burma, China |
Ethnicity | Palaung |
Native speakers | 28,000 (1995–2008)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either:ril – Riang Langyin – Yinchia |
Glottolog |
rian1260 [2] |
Riang is a Mon–Khmer language of Burma and China. Speakers are culturally assimilated with the Karen, but are Palaung by ancestry and their language is unrelated. Riang Lang and Yinchia are sometimes considered distinct languages.
References
- ↑ Riang Lang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yinchia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Riang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Shintani Tadahiko. 2014. The Riang language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 101. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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