Laven language

Laven
Native to	Laos
Native speakers	30,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric West Laven
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: lbo – Jru’ (Laven) sqq – Sou (Su’)
Glottolog	love1237[2]

Laven is a Mon–Khmer dialect cluster of southern Laos. Laven is the exonym given by the Laotian government, while the autonym of many of those speakers is Jru' [ɟruʔ]. Varieties are:

• Jru' (also spelled Jruq)
• Juk
• Su' (also spelled Suq)

Laven varieties are described in detail by Therapan L-Thongkum and Paul Sidwell (2003).

References

1. Jru’ (Laven) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Sou (Su’) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Loven–Suq". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• 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.