Palaung language
Mon–Khmer dialect cluster spoken in Southeast Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Palaung or Ta'ang (Burmese: ပလောင်ဘာသာ), also known as De'ang (Chinese: 德昂語; Burmese: တအာင်းဘာသာ), is a Austroasiatic dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma (Shan State) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé (Ruching), Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language.[2][3] The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages.
Palaung | |
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De'ang, Ta'ang ပလောင်ဘာသာ, တအောင်းဘာသာ | |
Native to | Burma, China, Thailand |
Ethnicity | Ta'ang |
Native speakers | (ca. 560,000 cited 1982–??)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Burmese, Tai Le | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:pll – Shwepce – Ruchingrbb – Rumai |
Glottolog | pala1336 |
A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date.[1] Palaung was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[4][5] The Rulai dialect spoken near Lashio has regular phonological changes and some lexical differences from Ruching.[6]