Pear language

Pear
	Por
Pronunciation	[peə]
Native to	Cambodia
Region	Preah Vihear (formerly part of Kampong Thom)
Native speakers	250 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Pearic Pear; ;
Writing system	Khmer script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pcb
Glottolog	pear1247[2]

Pear is a moribund Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia. "Pear" is a pejorative term for the historical slave caste of the Khmer, but nonetheless is the usual term in the literature. Pear is spoken in 3–4 villages of Rovieng District, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (Ethnologue).

References

"Pear". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pear". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[1] "Pear". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. Retrieved 2018-01-26.

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pear". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.