Alak language

Alak
Native to	Laos
Ethnicity	Alak people
Native speakers	4,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric Central Alak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alk
Glottolog	alak1253[2]

Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern Laos, especially in the Provinces of Salavan and Sekong (where the Alak people make up over a fifth of the population). It is closely related to the language spoken by the Bahnars of Vietnam.

References

1. Alak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Alak". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
• http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903B-B@view Alak in RWAAI Digital Archive