Bru language

Bru
Bruu
Native to Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
Ethnicity Bru, Katang
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1991–2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bru  Eastern Bru
brv  Western Bru
sss  
xhv  Khua
Glottolog brou1236[2]

Bruu (also spelled Bru, B'ru, Baru, Brou) is a Mon–Khmer dialect continuum spoken by the Bru people of mainland Southeast Asia. and Khua are dialects.[3]

Names

There are various local and dialect designations for Bru (Sidwell 2005:11).

Distribution

The distribution of the Bru language spreads north and northeast from Salavan, Laos, through Savannakhet, Khammouane, and Bolikhamsai, and over into neighboring Thailand and Vietnam (Sidwell 2005:11). In Vietnam, Brâu (Braò) is spoken in Đắk Mế, Bờ Y commune, Đắk Tô District, Kon Tum Province.[4]

Dialects

Thailand has the following Western Bru dialects (Choo, et al. 2012).

References

  1. Eastern Bru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Western Bru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Khua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Brou–So". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Lê Bá Thảo, Hoàng Ma, et. al; Viện hàn lâm khoa học xã hội Việt Nam - Viện dân tộc học. 2014. Các dân tộc ít người ở Việt Nam: các tỉnh phía nam. Ha Noi: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội. ISBN 978-604-90-2436-8
  4. http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Jennifer_Engelkemier_Thesis.pdf

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