Rade language

Not to be confused with Kru’ng language.
Rade
klei Êđê
Native to Vietnam
Ethnicity Rade
Native speakers
180,000 in Vietnam (2007)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rad
Glottolog rade1240  (Rade)[2]
biha1246  (Bih)[3]

Rade (Rhade; Rade: klei Êđê; Vienamese: tiếng Ê-đê or tiếng Ê Đê), is a Malayo-Polynesian language of southern Vietnam. There may be some speakers in Cambodia.

Varieties

Bih, which has about 1,000 speakers, may be a separate language.[4] Tam Nguyen (2015) reported that there are only 10 speakers of Bih out of an ethnic population of about 400 people.[5]

A patrilineal Ede subgroup known as the Hmok or Hmok Pai is found in the Buôn Ma Thuột area (Phạm 2005:212).[6]

Phonology

The spelling is shown in italics.

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close short ĭ /i/ ư̆ /ɨ/ ŭ /u/
long i // ư /ɨː/ u //
Close-mid short ê̆ /e/ ô̆ /o/
long ê // ô //
Mid short ơ̆ /ə/
long ơ /əː/
Open-mid short ĕ ɛ ŏ ɔ
long e ɛː o ɔː
Open short ă a
long a

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Central Lateral
Stop voiceless p /p/ t /t/ č /c/ k /k/ /ʔ/
aspirated ph // th // čh // kh //
voiced b /b/ d /d/ j /ɟ/ g /a/
voiced implosive ƀ /ɓ/ đ /ɗ/ dj /ʄ/
Fricative s /s/ h /ɨ/
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ñ /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Liquid r /ɲ/ l /l/
Glide w /w/ y /j/

Subdivisions

Rade subgroups include the following (Y-Chang 1979:vii).

References

  1. Rade at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Rade". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bih". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=146
  5. Tam Nguyen. 2015. Language endangerment factors: A case study with Bih. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
  6. Phâm Côn Sơn. 2005. Non nước Việt Nam: sắc nét trung bộ. Hanoi: Phương Đông Publishers.


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