Aheu

Aheu
Spoken in	Thailand , Laos
speaker	approx. 1,000
Linguistic ; classification	Austro-Asian languages Mon Khmer languages Viet Muong languages Aheu ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	mkh
ISO 639-3	thm

Aheu (alternative names: Aho, Kha Tong Luang, Thavung, Phon Soung, mostly So in Thailand) is a language spoken in Southeast Asia .

distribution

In the 1990s there were about 750 speakers of this language in Thailand , mainly in the Song Dao district , Sakon Nakhon province, and about 1,770 speakers in Laos on the banks of the Theun River , east and south of Lak Sao in the Khamkeut district , Khammuan province , as well as in the province of Bolikhamsai . The total number of speakers is around 2,520.

Characteristics

Aheu has four different sound formations , which are located between clear and strongly ventilated. In addition, the language shows the glottalization of the final consonants.

Individual evidence

↑ Suwilai Premsrirat (1996). Phonological characteristics of So (Thavung), a Vietic language of Thailand . Accessed November 22, 2017.
^ Peoples of the Buddhist World, 2004
↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=thm last accessed on September 22, 2012

[Premsrirat-1] Suwilai Premsrirat (1996). Phonological characteristics of So (Thavung), a Vietic language of Thailand . Accessed November 22, 2017.

[2] Peoples of the Buddhist World, 2004

[3] ttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=thm last accessed on September 22, 2012