Central Chong

E805419

Central Chong is a branch of the Pearic languages spoken by indigenous communities in parts of Cambodia and Thailand.

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Label Occurrences
Central Chong canonical 1

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Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Pearic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Northern Chong
Southern Chong
linked to: Chong
distinctFrom Khmer language
linked to: Khmer

Thai language
documentationStatus limited linguistic documentation
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicity Chong people
hasDialects varieties of Chong
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive register or voice quality
rich vowel system
hasWritingSystem no widely used standardized script
languageFamily Austroasiatic
Pearic
region eastern Thailand
linked to: Eastern Thailand

western Cambodia
riskOf language extinction
spokenBy indigenous communities
spokenByAgeGroup primarily older adults
spokenIn Cambodia
Thailand
subclassOf Austroasiatic languages
linked to: Austroasiatic

Pearic languages
subjectOfStudy Austroasiatic linguistics
threatenedBy language shift to Khmer
language shift to Thai
usedScriptHistorically Khmer script
Thai script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pearic languages hasMember Central Chong