Tariang language

{{short description|Austroasiatic language spoken in Laos}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Taliang

|altname = Trieng

|nativename = Kasseng

|states = Laos

|region =

|ethnicity = Gie-Trieng

|speakers = {{sigfig|45,300|2}}

|date = 2005

|ref = e18

|familycolor = Austro-Asiatic

|fam2 = Bahnaric

|fam3 = Central

|lc1 = tdf |ld1 = Talieng

|lc2 = stg |ld2 = Trieng

|lc3 = tgr |ld3 = Tareng

|glotto=trie1243

|glottoname=Trieng

}}

Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a Bahnaric language spoken by the Jeh-Tariang people of Laos and Vietnam. It is possibly related to the Stieng language of Vietnam and Cambodia.Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices

There are various languages that have gone by the name Taliang/Trieng, which means 'headhunters'; SEALang classifies two of these as dialects of the same language as Kasseng.[http://sealang.net/sala/mk-class.htm SEALang SALA: Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives]