Bru (language)

Bru
Spoken in	Laos , Vietnam , Thailand
speaker	148,000 native speakers
Linguistic ; classification	Austro-Asian languages Mon Khmer languages Katu languages West Katu languages; ; Bru ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639-3	bru

Bru (Bruu, Van Kieu) is a language that is mainly spoken by the Bru people, whose members settle in Vietnam , Laos and Thailand .

Bru belongs to the group of Katu languages in the Mon-Khmer language family , which in turn belongs to the Austro-Asian languages . The language is divided into two main branches: the Eastern and the Western Bru, which is spoken by a few speakers in Thailand and Laos.

Eastern Bru

The number of speakers of the Eastern Bru language is

in Vietnam : 74,506 (as of 2009, census), mainly in the provinces of Quang Binh , Quang Tri , Dak Lak and Thừa Thiên-Huế
in Laos : 69,000 (as of 1999), in the east of the Savannakhet province

in Thailand : 5,000 (as of 1983), Sakon Nakhon Province and Amnat Charoen

Most languages of the Mon Khmer family have more than 20 different vowels , with Bru being one of the most vowel- rich languages. If you add up all types, including the nasal vowels, 68 distinguishable vowel groups come together. This is probably the highest number in the world.

SIL code

Eastern Bru: BRU
Western Bru: BRV

Individual evidence

↑ The overall result of the population and housing census in Vietnam in 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ Tổng điều tra Dân số và Nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009 File: Phan I.pdf, s. 134, item "24 Bru - Vân Kiều". Retrieved 18/08/2015.
↑ Cliff Goddard: The Languages of East and Southeast Asie: an introduction . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-927311-9 . P. 154
↑ Diffloth, Gérard; Norman Zide: Austro-Asiatic languages. In: William Bright (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics . New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. I, pp. 137-42.

literature

John D. Miller: Word Classes in Brou . In: Mon-Khmer Stiudies , Volume 1, pp. 41-62. 1964.

Web links

starling.rinet.ru Information on the phonetic system of the Bru language

[1] The overall result of the population and housing census in Vietnam in 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ Tổng điều tra Dân số và Nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009 File: Phan I.pdf, s. 134, item "24 Bru - Vân Kiều". Retrieved 18/08/2015.

[2] Cliff Goddard: The Languages of East and Southeast Asie: an introduction . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-927311-9 . P. 154

[3] Diffloth, Gérard; Norman Zide: Austro-Asiatic languages. In: William Bright (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Linguistics . New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. I, pp. 137-42.