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Riang language

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Native to
  
Burma, China

Native speakers
  
28,000 (1995–2008)

Ethnicity
  
Palaung

Glottolog
  
rian1260

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Palaungic Palaung–Riang Riang)1990 baible Mathai

ISO 639-3
  
Either: ril – Riang Lang yin – Yinchia

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 Yinchia are sometimes considered distinct languages.

References

Riang language Wikipedia