Mon–Khmer dialect cluster spoken in Southeast Asia
Not to be confused with Palauan language.
Palaung
De'ang, Ta'ang ပလောင်ဘာသာ, တအာင်းဘာသာ
Native to
Burma, China, Thailand
Ethnicity
Ta'ang
Native speakers
(ca. 560,000 cited 1982–??)[1]
Language family
Austroasiatic
Khasi–Palaungic
Palaungic
Palaung–Riang
Palaung
Writing system
Burmese, Tai Le
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Variously: pll – Shwe pce – Ruching rbb – Rumai
Glottolog
pala1336
De'ang manuscript
Palaung or Ta'ang (Burmese: ပလောင်ဘာသာ), also known as De'ang (Chinese: 德昂語; Burmese: တအာင်းဘာသာ), is a Austroasiatic dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma (Shan State) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé (Ruching), Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language.[2][3] The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages.
A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date.[1] Palaung was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[4][5] The Rulai dialect spoken near Lashio has regular phonological changes and some lexical differences from Ruching.[6]
^ abShwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Ruching at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Rumai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Waddington, Ray (2003). "The Palaung". The Peoples of the World Foundation. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
^Klose, Albrecht (2001). Sprachen der Welt Ein weltweiter Index der Sprachfamilien, Einzelsprachen und Dialekte, mit Angabe der Synonyma und fremdsprachigen Äquivalente / Languages of the World: A Multi-lingual Concordance of Languages, Dialects, and Language-families (2nd rev. and enl. ed.). München: K.G. Saur. p. 403. ISBN 3-598-11404-4.
^"UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
^Moseley, Christopher (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2.
^"Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.
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