Cheq Wong language
Cheq Wong (Ceq Wong, Chewong) is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the Malay Peninsula. It belongs to the Northern subbranch of the Aslian languages. Northern Aslian was labelled Jehaic in the past.
| Cheq Wong | |
|---|---|
| Ceq Wong, Chewong | |
| Native to | Malaysia |
| Region | Peninsula Malaysia |
Native speakers | 460 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cwg |
| Glottolog | chew1245[2] |
An ethnographic map of the Malay Peninsula showing were the Cheq Wonq people live (in green).
References
- Cheq Wong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chewong". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Further reading
- Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
- Howell, S. (1982). Chewong myths and legends. Kuala Lumpur: Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works.
- Kruspe, N., N. Burenhult & E. Wnuk. (2014). Northern Aslian. In: P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (eds.) The Handbook of Austroasiatic languages. 419-474. Brill Publishers.
- Kruspe, N. (2009). Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.) Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook of lexical borrowing. 659-685. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
External links
- Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database (WOLD). Munich: Max Planck Digital Library
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6702-D@view Ceq Wong in RWAAI Digital Archive
- ELAR archive of Ceq Wong (and Mah Meri) language documentation materials
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