Mnong language

Mnong language
Mnong
Spoken in Vietnam, Cambodia and USA
Region throughout Tây Nguyên region, especially in Đắk Lắk, Lâm Đồng, Đắk Nông and Bình Phước provinces; Mondulkiri in Cambodia
Native speakers 120,000  (no date)
Language family
Austro-Asiatic
  • Bahnaric
    • South Bahnaric
      • Sre–Mnong
        • Mnong
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
cmo – Central Mnong
mng – Eastern Mnong
mnn – Southern Mnong

The Mnong language belongs to the Mon–Khmer language family. It is spoken by the different groups of Mnong in Vietnam and a Mnong group in Cambodia. Four major dialects exist: Central, Eastern and Southern Mnong (all spoken in Vietnam), and Kraol (spoken in Cambodia). Within a dialect group, members do not understand other dialects. The Mnong language was studied first by the linguist Richard Phillips in the early 1970s.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Harry Leonard Shorto, Jeremy Hugh Chauncy, Shane Davidson (1991). Austroasiatic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 0728601834. 
  2. ^ "Language Family Trees". ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91045. Retrieved 2008-01-07. 

Further reading

  • Blood, Henry Florentine. A Reconstruction of Proto-Mnong. Waxhaw, N.C.: Wycliffe-JAARS Print Shop, 1968.

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