Phuan language

Phuan
Native to Laos, Thailand
Ethnicity Phuan people
Native speakers
 300,000 (2000–2006)[1]
Kra–Dai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 phu
Glottolog phua1239[2]

Phuan is a Tai language spoken in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.[3][4]

Distribution

In Thailand, Phuan is spoken in Chachoengsao, Chaiyaphum, Lopburi, Nakhon Nayok, Phetchabun, Phichit, Prachinburi, and Saraburi provinces; it is also spoken in an isolated area of Bueng Kan Province, and in one village south of Bangkok (Ethnologue).

There are approximately 5,000 Phuan in Mongkol Borei District of Banteay Meanchey Province in Cambodia,[5] as well in Battambang Province.

References

  1. ↑ Phuan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Phuan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "Phuan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Schliesinger, Joachim (8 October 2011). Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Volume 3: Profile of the Austro-Thai-and Sinitic-Speaking Peoples. White Lotus Co Ltd. ISBN 9744801794. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Schliesinger, Joachim (8 October 2011). Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Volume 3: Profile of the Austro-Thai-and Sinitic-Speaking Peoples. White Lotus Co Ltd. p. 10. ISBN 9744801794. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

Further reading

  • Burusphat, S., Sujaritlak Deepadung, S., Suraratdecha, N. A., Patpong, P., & Setapong, P. "Language Vitality and the Ethnic Tourism Development of the Lao Ethnic Groups in the Western Region of Thailand."


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