Cheng language

Jeng
Native to	Laos
Native speakers	4,500 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric West Oi–The Jeng
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jeg
Glottolog	jeng1241[2]

Cheng (also known as Jeng, Chieng) is a Mon–Khmer language of southern Laos. Chazée (1999:95) estimates the population at 5,500, while the 1995 Laotian census places the Cheng population at 6,511. Cheng is very closely related to Oi but the speakers consider themselves to be a distinct ethnic group from the Oi (Sidwell 2003).

The Cheng live mostly along the banks of the Sekaman River, in and around Ban Fandeng (Phandɛŋ).

References

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

Further reading

• Sidwell, Paul (2003). A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

External links

• http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
• http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9040-E@view Cheng in RWAAI Digital Archive