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Chrau language

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Native to
  
Vietnam

Writing system
  
Latin

Native speakers
  
7,000 (1995 census)

Region
  
Đồng Nai, Tây Ninh, and Bình Dương provinces

Ethnicity
  
26,900 Chrau people (2009 census)

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Bahnaric South Bahnaric Stieng–Chrau Chrau

Chrau /ˈr/ is a Bahnaric language spoken by some of the 22,000 ethnic Cho Ro people in southern Vietnam. Unlike most languages of Southeast Asia, Chrau has no lexical tone, though it does have significant sentence intonation.

References

Chrau language Wikipedia