Pear language

Pear
Pear
Por
Pronunciation	[peər]
Native to	Cambodia
Region	Preah Vihea (formerly part of Kampong Thom)
Native speakers	250 (2007)
Language family	Austroasiatic Pearic Pear; ;
Writing system	Khmer script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pcb
Glottolog	pear1247
ELP	Pear

Pear is a moribund Austroasiatic language of Cambodia. "Pear" (French Péâr) is a pejorative term for the historical slave caste of the Khmer, but nonetheless is the usual term in the literature. Pear is spoken in 3–4 villages of Rovieng District, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia according to Ethnologue.

Sidwell (2009), citing Baradat (ms), considers Pear of Kompong Thom to be the most divergent Pearic language.^[2]

References

^ "Pear". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
^ Sidwell, Paul (2009). "Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: history and state of the art". LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 76. Munich: Lincom Europa.

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[1] "Pear". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. Retrieved 2018-01-26.

[Sidwell2009-2] Sidwell, Paul (2009). "Classifying the Austroasiatic languages: history and state of the art". LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 76. Munich: Lincom Europa.

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