Bru language

Bru
Bruu
Native to Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
Ethnicity Bru, Katang
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1991–2006)[1]
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bru â€“ Eastern Bru
brv â€“ Western Bru
sss â€“ Sô
xhv â€“ 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. Sô 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)
    Sô 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. ↑
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ http://ic.payap.ac.th/graduate/linguistics/theses/Jennifer_Engelkemier_Thesis.pdf

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