Rade language

Rade (Rhade; Rade: klei Êđê; Vietnamese: tiếng Ê-đê or tiếng Ê Đê), is an Austronesian language of southern Vietnam. There may be some speakers in Cambodia. It is a member of the Chamic subgroup, and is closely related to the Cham language of central Vietnam.[4]

Rade
klei Êđê
Native toVietnam
EthnicityRade
Native speakers
180,000 in Vietnam (2007)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
rad  Rade
ibh  Bih
Glottolograde1240  Rade[2]
biha1246  Bih[3]

Dialects

Đoàn Văn Phúc (1998:24)[5] lists 9 dialects of Ede. They are spoken mostly in Đắk Lắk Province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

Bih, which has about 1,000 speakers, may be a separate language.[6][7] Tam Nguyen (2015) reported that there are only 10 speakers of Bih out of an ethnic population of about 400 people.[8]

A patrilineal Ede subgroup known as the Hmok or Hmok Pai is found in the Buôn Ma Thuột area (Phạm 2005:212).[9]

Classification

Đoàn Văn Phúc (1998:23)[5] provides the following classification for the Ede dialects. Đoàn (1998) also provides a 1,000-word vocabulary list for all of the 9 Ede dialects.

  • Area 1
    • Area 1.1: Krung, Kpă, Adham
    • Area 1.2: Drao. Êpan, Ktul
    • Blô (mixture of areas 1.1 and 1.2, as well as Mdhur)
  • Area 2
    • Mdhur
    • Bih

Đoàn Văn Phúc (1998:23)[5] assigns the following cognacy percentages for comparisons between Ede Kpă and the other 8 dialects of Ede, with Bih as the most divergent Ede dialect.

  • Kpă - Krung: 85.5%
  • Kpă - Adham: 82%
  • Kpă - Ktul: 82%
  • Kpă - Mdhur: 80%
  • Kpă - Blô: 82%
  • Kpă - Êpan: 85%
  • Kpă - Drao: 81%
  • Kpă - Bih: 73%

Vocabulary

  • Khoa sang - the most senior in age and authority
  • Dega - Protestant of Christian (single word identity of E-de)
  • Ih - you
  • Ung - husband
  • Ñu - her/him
  • Diñu - they
  • Drei - we
  • khăp - love
  • bi êmut - hate
  • ama - father, dad daddy
  • jhat - ugly, bad
  • siam - pretty
  • siam mniê - beautiful girl
  • jāk- good
  • khăp - love
  • brei - give
  • djō - true
  • nao - go
  • kâo - I/me
  • anăn - name
  • c̆ar - country
  • c̆iăng - want/like
  • Aê Diê - God
  • blŭ - speak
  • klei blŭ - language
  • bur - rice porridge
  • êmong - fat
  • êwang - skinny
  • jŭ - black
  • hruê/hrê - to be from
  • mơ̆ng - from
  • sa, dua, tlâo, pă, êma - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • năm, kjuh,sa-băn, dua-băn, pluh: 6,7,8,9,10
  • c̆ar my/c̆ar amêrik - America
  • c̆ar krŭr - Cambodia
  • anak - person
  • hriăm - learn
  • roă/ruă - sound of displeasure/pain
  • Buôn Ama Y'Thuôt - Buôn Ma Thuôt
  • c̆ih - type/write
  • klei my - English
  • klei êdê - Rade/Ede

Phonology

The spelling is shown in italics.

Vowels

Front Central Back
shortlong shortlong shortlong
High ĭ /i/i /iː/ ư̆ /ɨ/ư /ɨː/ ŭ /u/u /uː/
Mid ê̆ /e/ê /eː/ ơ̆ /ə/ơ /əː/ ô̆ /o/ô /oː/
Low ĕ /ɛ/e /ɛː/ ă /a/a /aː/ ŏ /ɔ/o /ɔː/

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ñ /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Stop voiceless p /p/ t /t/ č /c/ k /k/ /ʔ/
aspirated ph // th // čh // kh //
voiced b /b/ d /d/ j /ɟ/ g /ɡ/
implosive ƀ /ɓ/ đ /ɗ/ dj /ʄ/
Fricative s /s/ h /h/
Approximant w /w/ l /l/ y /j/
Rhotic r /r/
gollark: Informational texts are kind of less so.
gollark: That's a story. Those are in order.
gollark: Yes, that. I alt-tab lots.
gollark: Podcasts have most of the same problems, too.
gollark: Theoretically you *can* just leave it playing and then do other stuff, but it's easy to be distracted.

References

  1. Rade at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Bih at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rade". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bih". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. "Rade (klei Êđê)". Omniglot.
  5. Đoàn Văn Phúc. 1998. Từ vựng các phương ngữ Êđê / Lexique des dialectes Êđê. Hanoi: Đại học quốc gia Hà Nội.; École française d'Extrême-Orient.
  6. "Documentation and description of endangered languages". www.hrelp.org. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  7. Nguyen, Tam (2013). A Grammar of Bih (PhD thesis). University of Oregon. hdl:1794/12996.
  8. Tam Nguyen. 2015. Language endangerment factors: A case study with Bih. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
  9. Phâm Côn Sơn. 2005. Non nước Việt Nam: sắc nét trung bộ. Hanoi: Phương Đông Publishers.
  • Sở giáo dục và đào tạo tỉnh Đắk Lắk - Viện ngôn ngữ học Việt Nam. 2012. Ngữ pháp tiếng Êđê. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản giáo dục Việt Nam.
  • Ủy ban nhân dân tỉnh Đăk Lăk - Sở giáo dục - Đào tạo - Viện ngôn ngữ học Việt Nam. 1993. Từ điển Việt - Êđê. Đăk Lăk: Nhà xuất bản giáo dục.
  • Linh Nga Niê Kdam. 2013. Nghệ thuật diễn xướng dân gian Ê Đê, Bih ở Dăk Lăk. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Thời Đại. ISBN 978-604-930-599-3
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