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Maleng language

{{Short description|Austroasiatic language spoken in Laos and Vietnam}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Maleng

|altname=Pakatan

|nativename=Bo

|states=Laos, Vietnam

|speakers=3,700

|date=2000–2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic

|fam2=Vietic

|fam3=Chutic

|dia1=Atel

|dia2=Thémarou

|dia3=Arao

|dia4=Makang

|dia5=Malang

|dia6=Maleng

|dia7=Tơe

|lc1=pkt|ld1=Pakatan

|lc2=bgl|ld2=Bo

|glotto=male1282

|glottoname=Maleng

|glotto2=bola1249

|glottoname2=Bo-Maleng

|glottorefname2=Bo-Maleng

}}

Maleng (autonym: /malɛ̤ŋ²/), also known as Pakatan and Bo, is a Vietic language of Laos and Vietnam.

Maleng has the four-way register system of Thavung augmented with pitch.Sidwell, Paul. [http://sealang.net/mk/vietic.htm Vietic languages]. Mon-Khmer Languages Project.

Malieng, despite having the same name as Maleng, is a dialect of Chut (Chamberlain 2003, Sidwell 2009).

Varieties

Maleng consists of three dialect clusters:{{cite book|last1=Babaev|first1=Kirill|last2=Samarina|first2=Irina|editor-last1=Sidwell|editor-first1=Paul|year=2021|title=A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9-00446-108-6|pages=12}}

  • Maleng (Mã Liềng); Kha Pakatan; Malang; Arem/Harème (Rivière 1902).Rivière, Capitaine M. 1902. Vocabulaires Hang-Tcheh, Khas Xos, Harème. Mission Pavie, Géographie et voyages. IV. Paris: Ernest Leroux. Sub-varieties include Kha Muong Ben and Kha Bo (Fraisse 1950).Fraisse, André. 1950. Les tribus Sèk et Kha de la province de Cammon (Laos). Bulletin de la Société des études indochinoises 25.3:333–348.
  • Ma Lieng, also known as Pa Leng (Đặng Nghiêm Vạn et al. 1986)Đặng Nghiêm Vạn, Chu Thái Sơn, Lưu Hùng. 1986. Les ethnies minoritaires du Vietnam. Hanoi: Editions en langues étrangères.
  • Kha Phong (formerly an exonym, but now also used as an autonym); Maleng Kari; Maleng Bro. Also known as Kha Nam Om (Fraisse 1949).Fraisse, André. 1949. Une civilisation de clairière au Laos: le Cammon. Annales de Géographie 58.310:158–161. The Kha Phong live in 2 to 3 villages in Laos, and in one village in Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam. Strongly influenced by Lao. Maleng Bro was documented by Michel Ferlus in 1992 (see Ferlus 1997Ferlus, Michel. 1997. Le maleng brô et le vietnamien. Mon-Khmer Studies 27:55–66.), and also by the 2012-2013 Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition.

Distribution

Maleng is spoken in the following villages of Laos and Vietnam.Babaev, Kirill Vladimirovich [Бабаев, Кирилл Владимирович]; Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna [Самарина, Ирина Владимировна]. 2019. Язык май. Материалы Российско-вьетнамской лингвистической экспедиции / Jazyk maj. Materialy Rossijsko-vetnamskoj lingvisticheskoj ekspeditsii. Moscow: [http://www.lrc-press.ru/ Издательский Дом ЯСК]. {{isbn|978-5-907117-34-1}}. {{in lang|ru}}. p.16.

References

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External links

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20120321112336/http://cema.gov.vn/modules.php?name=Content&op=details&mid=493

{{Languages of Laos}}

{{Languages of Vietnam}}

{{Austro-Asiatic languages}}

Category:Languages of Laos

Category:Languages of Vietnam

Category:Vietic languages