Bru (language)
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Laos , Vietnam , Thailand | |
speaker | 148,000 native speakers | |
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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