Northeast Kedah, near Thai border. Overlaps into south Yala Province, Thailand.
Ethnicity
Maniq
Native speakers
259 (2015)[1]
Language family
Austroasiatic
Aslian
Jahaic
Western
Kensiu
Dialects
Ijoh (Ijok), Jarum, Jeher (Sakai Tanjong of Temongoh), Kedah (Quedah), Plus, Ulu Selama, Kensiu Batu, Kensiu Siong, Kentaq Nakil
Writing system
Latin script, Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
kns
Glottolog
kens1248
ELP
Kensiu
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 southern Thailand and also reportedly by a community of approximately 300 speakers in Western Malaysia in Perak and Kedah states. Speakers of this language are Negritos who are known as the Mani people or Maniq of Thailand.[2]
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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...
is more common cross-linguistically, particularly in European languages). Kensiulanguage Jahai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
distinguish more than four heights of true front or back vowels. The Kensiulanguage spoken in Malaysia and Thailand is highly unusual in that it phonemically...
Maniq language may refer to two languages spoken by the Maniq people (Mani'): Ten'edn Kensiulanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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...
/y ø œ̝ œ/, /u o ɔ̝ ɔ/, /a/. Apart from the aforementioned Kensiulanguage, no other language is known to contrast more than four degrees of vowel height...
railway station, Glasgow, Scotland, station code KNS Kensiulanguage, an Austro-asiatic language, ISO 639-3 code kns Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig...
living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write the Kensiulanguage. Modern Chinese characters Chữ Nôm Ambiguities in Chinese character...
words from the Kensiulanguage, despite these two indigenous peoples being separated by a long distance. However, the Cheq Wong language also has features...
languages Mon-Khmer languages Aslian languages Northern group (Jahaic languages) Western subgroup Kensiulanguage (ISO-3 code: kns) Kintaq language (ISO...
The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...
Aslian languages is about fifty thousand and all are in danger of extinction. Aslian languages recognized by the Malaysian administration include Kensiu, Kintaq...
home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family...
Negrito group in Thailand and speak a variety of related Aslian languages, primarily Kensiu and Ten'edn, which do not have standard writing systems. In Thailand...
genetic relationship to the two subgroups of the Orang Asli Semang, Jahai and Kensiu, than other Malay groups. Four of the Malay sub-ethnic groups in this study...
backness: [e̠, e̞, ɛ]. It is much like the distinction found in the Kensiulanguage. /ø/ is central [ɵ], rather than front. Older speakers may have an...
Bulgarian has an open-mid [ɛ], but none of these languages have another phonemic mid front vowel. Kensiu, spoken in Malaysia and Thailand, is claimed to...
languages, there is no contrast with another mid (true-mid or close-mid) vowel. Kensiu, in Malaysia and Thailand, is highly unusual in that it contrasts true-mid...
term Orang Utara is more politically neutral. This also extends to their language, which is called Pelat Utara or Northern Dialect. However, the Kedahan...
Malay, there are also various minority languages spoken throughout Kedah, Aslian languages such as Jahai, Kensiu and Kintaq are spoken by the small Orang...
Orang Kuala Orang Seletar Semelai Temoq Temuan Semang Batek Lanoh Jahai Kensiu Kintaq Mendriq Mintil Mos Senoi Semai Mah Meri Cheq Wong Temiar Jah Hut...
the Austroasiatic languages. These languages are Lanoh, Temiar, Jahai, Kensiu, Kintaq, and Semai. Members of the Siamese community mainly speak a Southern...
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