Nyaheun language
Heun | |
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Nyaheun | |
Native to | Laos |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2007)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
nev |
Glottolog |
nyah1249 [2] |
Nyaheun (also known as Nhaheun, Yaheun, Nyahon; autonym: Heun [hɐɐɲ]) is a Mon–Khmer language of the Bahnaric branch spoken in southern Laos. Chazée (1999:95) estimates the population at 4,200, while the 1995 Laotian census places the Nyaheun population at 5,152.
Nyaheun speakers were formerly distributed in the Senamnoy and Sepian valleys, but due to logging and hydroelectric power projects, they were forcibly relocated to Ban Tayeukseua (Tagneugsua; about 10 km southwest of Houeikong), and a new village 8 km north of Houeikong (near Ban Thongvay) (Sidwell 2003:21).
References
- ↑ Heun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nyaheun". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Sidwell, Paul (2003). A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9042-E@view Nyaheun in RWAAI Digital Archive
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