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Kháng language

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Native to
  
Vietnam

Native speakers
  
14,000 (2009 census)

Ethnicity
  
Khang

Region
  
Sơn La and Lai Châu provinces

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Palaungic Bit–Khang Kháng

ISO 639-3
  
kjm – inclusive code Individual code: xao – Khao

Kháng (Chinese: 抗语), also known as Mang U’, is an Austroasiatic language of Vietnam. It is closely related to the Bumang language of southern Yunnan, China.

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Classification

Paul Sidwell (2014) classifies Khang as Palaungic, although Jerold Edmondson (2010) suggests it is Khmuic.

Kháng is most closely related to Bumang (Edmondson 2010).

Distribution

Kháng speakers are an officially recognized ethnic group in Vietnam, and officially numbered 10,272 in 1999.

The Kháng are distributed in the following districts of northwest Vietnam in Sơn La Province and Lai Châu Province:

  • Sơn La Province (along the Black River)
  • Thuận Châu (including Bản Ná Lai village)
  • Quỳnh Nhai
  • Mường La
  • Lai Châu Province
  • Phong Thổ
  • Mường Tè
  • Than Uyên
  • Điện Biên Province
  • Mường Lay (alternatively Mường Chà)
  • Tuần Giáo
  • References

    Kháng language Wikipedia