Riang language

Riang
Native to	Burma, China
Ethnicity	Palaung
Native speakers	28,000 (1995–2008)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Palaungic Palaung–Riang Riang; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; ril – Riang Lang; yin – Yinchia
Glottolog	rian1260[2]

Riang is a Mon–Khmer language of Burma and China. Speakers are culturally assimilated with the Karen, but are Palaung by ancestry and their language is unrelated. Riang Lang and Riang Lai (Yinchia) are sometimes considered distinct languages.

References

↑ Riang Lang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yinchia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Riang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Shintani Tadahiko. 2014. The Riang language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 101. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).

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[e18-1] Riang Lang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yinchia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Riang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.