Saek (language)

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Saek ( ภาษา แสก )

Spoken in

Laos , Thailand
speaker 34,000 native speakers
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

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Saek ( Thai ภาษา แสก ) is a Tai language that is spoken in several localities in central Laos and in northeastern Thailand , Isan . The approximately 34,000 speakers are almost exclusively members of the Saek ethnic group .

In Thailand, Saek is spoken in the province of Nakhon Phanom in the localities of Ban Asamat and Ban Phai Lom, a few kilometers north of the provincial capital Nakhon Phanom . A little further inland above the Mekong is another village near Ban Bawa Saek.

The Saek language is in danger of becoming extinct, as it is almost exclusively spoken by the older Saek. The younger ones mostly use the local official languages Lao and Thai .

literature

  • Thomas John Hudak (Ed.): William J. Gedney's The Saek language. Glossary, texts, and translations (= Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia. Vol. 41). University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Ann Arbor MI 1993, ISBN 0-89148-073-0 .
  • Wilaiwan Khanittanan: Saek Revisited. In: The Tai-Kadai Languages. Routledge, Oxford / New York 2008, pp. 389–392.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=108502&rog3=LA Joshua Project (in English; last accessed on January 27, 2010).

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