Chrau language
| Chrau | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Vietnam |
| Region | Đồng Nai, Tây Ninh, and Bình Dương provinces |
| Ethnicity | 26,900 Chrau people (2009 census)[1] |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1995 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | crw |
| Glottolog | chra1242 |
| ELP | Chrau |
Chrau /ˈtʃraʊ/[2] is a Bahnaric language spoken by some of the 22,000 ethnic Cho Ro people in southern Vietnam. Unlike most languages of Southeast Asia, Chrau has no lexical tone, though it does have significant sentence intonation.[3]
References
- ^ a b Chrau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Thomas, Dorothy M. (1966). "Chrau intonation" (PDF). Mon–Khmer Studies. 2: 1–13.
Further reading
- Cheeseman, Nathaniel; Herington, Jennifer; Sidwell, Paul (2013). ''Bahnaric linguistic bibliography with selected annotations. Mon-Khmer Studies vol. 42 Mahidol University and SIL International.
- Thomas, D. D. (1967). Chrau grammar; a Mon–Khmer language of Vietnam.