Ta'Oi language
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| Ta'Oi | |
|---|---|
| Ta Oi | |
| Native to | Laos, Vietnam |
| Ethnicity | Ta Oi, Katang |
Native speakers | (220,000 cited 1995–2005)[1] |
Austroasiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:tth – Upper Ta'Oiirr – Ir (Hantong)oog – Ong (= Ir)tto – Lower Ta'Oingt – Ngeq (Kriang) |
| Glottolog | taoi1247 |
| ELP | Chatong |
Ta'Oi (Ta'Oih, Ta Oi) is a Katuic dialect chain of Salavan and Sekong provinces in Laos, and in Thừa Thiên-Huế province in Vietnam (Sidwell 2005:12).
Varieties
Sidwell (2005) lists the following varieties of Ta'Oi, which is a name applied to speakers of various related dialects.
- Ta'Oi proper
- Ong/Ir/Talan
- Chatong is spoken about 50 to 100 km northeast of Sekong. It has been recorded only by Theraphan L-Thongkum.
- Kriang (Ngkriang, Ngeq) is spoken by up to 4,000 people living in villages between Tatheng and Sekong, such as Ban Chakamngai.
- Kataang (Katang) is a dialect that has been documented by Michel Ferlus, Gerard Diffloth, and other linguists. It is not to be confused with the Bru dialect of Katang.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
- There are also creaky syllable-final segments /mʔ, nʔ, ŋʔ, wʔ, lʔ, jʔ/, however; they are not noted as a distinct series.
- /ɟ/ may also be heard as a preglottal sound [ʔj].[3]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Mid | e eː | ə əː | o oː |
| Open | ɛ ɛː | a aː | ɔ ɔː |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | ia | ɨa | ua |
References
- ^ Upper Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ir (Hantong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ong (= Ir) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Lower Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ngeq (Kriang) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ "Mon-Khmer Classification (draft)". SEAlang. 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^ Sidwell, Paul (2005). pp. 12-15
Further reading
- Sidwell, Paul (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-802-7
- Trần Nguyễn Khánh Phong. 2013. Người Tà Ôi ở A Lưới. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
- Miller, Carolyn (2017). "Notes on Northern Katang Kinship and Society". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 10 (2): xxiii–xxix. hdl:10524/52410.
- Gehrmann, Ryan. 2017. The Historical Phonology of Kriang, A Katuic Language. JSEALS Volume 10.1 (2017).