Native to Laos Glottolog jeng1241 | Native speakers 4,500 (2007) | |
Language family Austroasiatic
Bahnaric
West
Oi–The
Jeng | ||
Cheng (also known as Jeng, Chieng) is a Mon–Khmer language of southern Laos. Chazée (1999:95) estimates the population at 5,500, while the 1995 Laotian census places the Cheng population at 6,511. Cheng is very closely related to Oi but the speakers consider themselves to be a distinct ethnic group from the Oi (Sidwell 2003).
As of 1/31/2017, the ISO code for Cheng language has been retired by SIL as Sidwell & Jacq, writing in 2003, consider Oi [Oy], Sok, and Cheng [Jeng] to be dialects of the same language.
Native speakers of Cheng live mostly along the banks of the Sekaman River, in and around Ban Fandeng (Phandɛŋ).
References
Cheng language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA