Alak language
Austroasiatic language spoken in Laos
Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern Laos, especially in the Provinces of Salavan and Sekong (where the Alak people make up over a fifth of the population). It is closely related to the language spoken by the Bahnars of Vietnam. It includes two dialects, Alak proper and Harak.[2]
| Alak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Laos |
| Ethnicity | Alak people |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2007)[1] |
| Lao script, Khom script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | alk |
| Glottolog | alak1253 |
References
- ^ Alak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in Mon-Khmer Studies, volume 27
External links
- https://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903B-B@view Alak in RWAAI Digital Archive