Ta'Oi language

Ta'Oi
Ta'Oi
Ta Oi
Native to	Laos, Vietnam
Ethnicity	Ta Oi, Katang
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1995–2005)
Language family	Austroasiatic Katuic Ta'Oi; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; tth – Upper Ta'Oi; irr – Ir (Hantong); oog – Ong (= Ir); tto – Lower Ta'Oi; ngt – Ngeq (Kriang)
Glottolog	taoi1247
ELP	Chatong

Ta'Oi (Ta'Oih, Ta Oi) is a Katuic dialect chain of Salavan and Sekong provinces in Laos, and in Thừa Thiên-Huế province in Vietnam (Sidwell 2005:12).

Varieties[]

Sidwell (2005) lists the following varieties of Ta'Oi, which is a name applied to speakers of various related dialects.

Ta'Oi proper
Ong/Ir/Talan
Chatong is spoken about 50 to 100 km northeast of Sekong. It has been recorded only by Theraphan L-Thongkum.
Kriang (Ngkriang, Ngeq) is spoken by up to 4,000 people living in villages between Tatheng and Sekong, such as Ban Chakamngai.
Kataang (Katang) is a dialect that has been documented by Michel Ferlus, Gerard Diffloth, and other linguists. It is not to be confused with the Bru dialect of Katang.^[2]

Phonology[]

Consonants[]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	l	j

There are also creaky syllable-final segments /mʔ, nʔ, ŋʔ, wʔ, lʔ, jʔ/, however; they are not noted as a distinct series.
/ɟ/ may also be heard as a preglottal sound [ʔj].^[3]

Vowels[]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː	ɨ ɨː	u uː
Mid	e eː	ə əː	o oː
Open	ɛ ɛː	a aː	ɔ ɔː

Diphthongs
	Front	Central	Back
Close	ia	ɨa	ua

References[]

^ Upper Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ir (Hantong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ong (= Ir) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lower Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngeq (Kriang) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ "Mon-Khmer Classification (draft)". SEAlang. 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
^ Sidwell, Paul (2005). pp. 12-15

Further reading[]

Sidwell, Paul (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-802-7
Trần Nguyễn Khánh Phong. 2013. Người Tà Ôi ở A Lưới. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
Miller, Carolyn (2017). "Notes on Northern Katang Kinship and Society". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 10 (2): xxiii–xxix. hdl:10524/52410.
Gehrmann, Ryan. 2017. The Historical Phonology of Kriang, A Katuic Language. JSEALS Volume 10.1 (2017).

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[e18-1] Upper Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ir (Hantong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ong (= Ir) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lower Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngeq (Kriang) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] "Mon-Khmer Classification (draft)". SEAlang. 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2018.

[3] Sidwell, Paul (2005). pp. 12-15

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Ta'Oi
Ta Oi
Native to	Laos, Vietnam
Ethnicity	Ta Oi, Katang
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1995–2005)^[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Katuic Ta'Oi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `tth` – Upper Ta'Oi `irr` – Ir (Hantong) `oog` – Ong (= Ir) `tto` – Lower Ta'Oi `ngt` – Ngeq (Kriang)
Glottolog	`taoi1247`
ELP	Chatong