Tariang language

Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a Bahnaric language of Laos. It is possibly the same as the Stieng language of Vietnam and Cambodia.[3]

Taliang
Trieng
Kasseng
Native toLaos
EthnicityGie-Trieng
Native speakers
45,000 (2005)[1]
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
tdf – Talieng
stg – Trieng
tgr – Tareng
Glottologtrie1243  Trieng[2]

There are various languages that have gone by the name Taliang/Trieng, which means 'headhunters'; SEALang classifies two of these as dialects of the same language as Kasseng.[4]

Further reading

The Institute for Cultural Research. Ministry of Information and Culture. 2003. The Life and House of the Tariang People. Sponsored by: The Japan Foundation Asia Center.

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References
  1. Talieng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Trieng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tareng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Trieng". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  4. SEALang SALA: Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives


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