Rade language

Not to be confused with Kru’ng language.

Rade
klei Êđê
Native to	Vietnam
Ethnicity	Rade
Native speakers	180,000 in Vietnam (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian Malayo-Sumbawan Chamic Highlands Rade
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rad
Glottolog	rade1240  Rade biha1246  Bih

Rade (Rhade; Rade: klei Êđê; Vienamese: tiếng Ê-đê or tiếng Ê Đê), is a Malayo-Polynesian language of southern Vietnam. There may be some speakers in Cambodia.

Bih, which has about 1,000 speakers, may be a separate language. Tam Nguyen (2015) reported that there are only 10 speakers of Bih out of an ethnic population of about 400 people.

Phonology

The spelling is shown in italics.

Vowels

		Front	Central	Back
Close	short	ĭ /i/	ư̆ /ɨ/	ŭ /u/
	long	i /iː/	ư /ɨː/	u /uː/
Close-mid	short	ê̆ /e/		ô̆ /o/
	long	ê /eː/		ô /oː/
Mid	short		ơ̆ /ə/
	long		ơ /əː/
Open-mid	short	ĕ ɛ		ŏ ɔ
	long	e ɛː		o ɔː
Open	short		ă a
	long		a aː

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			Central	Lateral
Stop	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/		č /c/	k /k/	/ʔ/
	aspirated	ph /pʰ/	th /tʰ/		čh /cʰ/	kh /kʰ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/		j /ɟ/	g /ɡ/
	voiced implosive	ƀ /ɓ/	đ /ɗ/		dj /ʄ/
Fricative			s /s/				h /h/
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/		ñ /ɲ/	ng /ŋ/
Liquid			r /r/	l /l/
Glide		w /w/		y /j/

Subdivisions

Rade subgroups include the following (Y-Chang 1979:vii).

• Mdhur
• Adham
• Blo
• Kơdrao
• Bih
• Krung
• Rdê Kpă