Sapuan language

Sapuan
Səpuar
Native to Laos
Native speakers
480 (1999)
to 1,000 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 spu
Glottolog sapu1248[2]

Sapuan (autonym: səpuar) is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the single village of Ban Sapuan, located approximately 40 km north of Attapeu. Jacq and Sidwell (1999) provide a short grammar. Sidwell (2003) reports a population of just under 1,000. Chazée (1999:93) gives a lower estimate of 480.

References

  1. Chazée 1999, Sidwell 2003
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sapuan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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