Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand, possibly in the Great Nicobar Island
Linguistic classification
Austroasiatic
Aslian
Northern Aslian
Subdivisions
Cheq Wong
Northern
Ten'edn
Shompen (possibly)
Glottolog
nort2682
The Northern Aslian languages (also called Jehaic or Semang) are a group of Aslian languages spoken by about 5,000 people in inland areas of Peninsular Malaysia, with a few pockets in southern Thailand. The most distinctive language in the group is the outlier Cheq Wong, which is spoken south of the Central Aslian language Semai. The other languages apart from Tonga can be split into two divisions:
Cheq Wong
Northern Aslian proper
Eastern
Batek (Batek Deq and Batek Nong), Mintil (Batek Tanɨm)
Jahai (Jehai), Minriq (Menriq)
Jedek
Western
Kintaq
Kensiu (Maniq)
(unclassified) Ten'edn (Mos, Maniq)
The name Maniq (Məniʔ, Maniʔ) can refer to either Kensiu or Tonga, both of which also go by the name of Mos.
Some Aslian languages are already extinct, such as Wila' (also called Bila' or Lowland Semang), a language or various languages recorded having been spoken on the Province Wellesley coast opposite Penang in the early 19th century. Another extinct language is Ple-Temer, which was previously spoken near Gerik in northern Perak (Benjamin 2011).
The Northern Aslian languages (also called Jehaic or Semang) are a group of Aslian languages spoken by about 5,000 people in inland areas of Peninsular...
that Aslian languages, especially the Northern Aslian (Jahaic) group, contain many words that cannot be traced to any currently known language family. The...
developments with Jahaic. Given the likelihood of borrowing from Nicobarese, that suggests that Shompen might be a Jahaic or at least Aslian language, or perhaps...
Jahaiclanguages (North Aslian), Senoic languages, Semelaic languages (South Aslian), and Jah Hut language. The languages which fall under the Jahaic...
Kensiu (Kensiw) is an Austroasiatic language of the Jahaic (Northern Aslian) subbranch. It is spoken by a small community of 300 people in Yala Province...
in Malaysia Jahai language, a part of the Jahaiclanguages spoken in Malaysia Jahaiclanguages, a group of northern Aslian language spoken in the Malay...
is an Aslian language of Malaysia, spoken by the Batek people. The Mintil (Batek Tanum), Dèq and Nong dialects may be separate languages. The number of...
languages of the Austroasiatic languages. The Aslian languages are divided into four branches namely the Jahaiclanguages (Northern Aslian languages)...
url-status (link) Bradley, David (2007). Languages of Mainland South-East Asia. In The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim. p. 301-336. Oxford University...
Austroasiatic language spoken in the Malay Peninsula by the Cheq Wong people. It belongs to the Northern subbranch of the Aslian languages. Northern Aslian...
Cheq Wong may refer to: Cheq Wong language, a language of the Jahaiclanguages branch spoken in Malaysia Cheq Wong people, an indigenous Orang Asli people...
Jedek demonstrates contrastive nasalization. Jedek demonstrates a typical Jahaic consonant inventory. The voiceless bilabial fricative /ɸ/ is a marginal...
is more common cross-linguistically, particularly in European languages). Kensiu language Jahai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
Wong language that they speak is closely related to the Northern Aslian languages. Cheq Wong language is part of the Northern Aslian languages. It borrows...
Geoffrey (2012). "The Aslian languages of Malaysia and Thailand: An Assessment". In Austin, Peter K.; McGill, Stuart (eds.). Language Documentation and Description...
(nɔŋ). The Batek language belongs to the Eastern Jahaic sub-branch of Aslian languages which is part of a wider Mon–Khmer language family. Batek's closest...
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