Ta’Oi language
Ta’Oi | |
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Ta Oi | |
Native to | Laos, Vietnam |
Ethnicity | Ta Oi, Katang |
Native speakers | 220,000 (1995–2005)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Variously: tth – Upper Ta’Oi kgd – Kataang irr – Ir (Hantong) oog – Ong (= Ir) tto – Lower Ta’Oi ngt – Ngeq (Kriang) llo – Khlor (Lor) |
Glottolog |
taoi1247 [2] |
Ta’Oi (Ta’Oih, Ta Oi) is a Katuic dialect chain of Salavan and Sekong provinces in Laos, and in Thừa Thiên-Huế province in Vietnam (Sidwell 2005:12).
Varieties
Sidwell (2005) lists the following varieties of Ta’Oi, which is a name applied to speakers of various related dialects.
- Ta’Oi proper
- Ong/Ir/Talan
- Chatong is spoken about 50 to 100 km northeast of Sekong. It has been recorded only by Theraphan L-Thongkum.
- Kriang (Ngkriang, Ngeq) is spoken by up to 4,000 people living in villages between Tatheng and Sekong, such as Ban Chakamngai.
- Kataang (Katang) is a dialect that has been documented by Michel Ferlus, Gerard Diffloth, and other linguists. It is not to be confused with the Bru dialect of Katang.[3]
References
- ↑ Upper Ta’Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kataang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ir (Hantong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ong (= Ir) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lower Ta’Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngeq (Kriang) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
(Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ta'ohic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑
Further Reading
- Sidwell, Paul (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-802-7
- Trần Nguyễn Khánh Phong. 2013. Người Tà Ôi ở A Lưới. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
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