Padaung language

For the unrelated "Kayan" dialect cluster spoken by the Kayan people of Borneo, see Kayan language (Borneo).
Padaung
Kayan
Native to Burma
Ethnicity Kayan people
Native speakers
130,000 (2005)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pdu
Glottolog kaya1315[2]

Padaung or Padaung Karen, also known as Kayan, is a Karen language of Burma, spoken by the Kayan people.

Distribution

Dialects

References

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


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