Thavung language

Thavưng or Aheu is a language spoken by the Phon Sung people in Laos and Thailand. There are thought to be some 1,770 speakers in Laos, largely concentrated in Khamkeut District. A further 750 speakers live in 3 villages of Song Dao District, Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand, namely Ban Nong Waeng (in Pathum Wapi Subdistrict), Ban Nong Charoen, and Ban Nong Muang [3].

Thavưng
Aheu
Native toLaos, Thailand
Native speakers
700 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Ahoe
  • Ahao
  • Ahlao
Language codes
ISO 639-3thm
Glottologaheu1239[2]

Thavung makes a four-way distinction between clear and breathy phonation combined with glottalized final consonants. This is very similar to the situation in the Pearic languages in which, however, the glottalization is in the vowel.

Further reading

Suwilai Premsrirat (1996) Phonological characteristics of So (Thavung), a Vietic language of Thailand

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References
  1. Thavưng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Thavung". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Suwilai Premsrirat (1996). Phonological characteristics of So (Thavung), a Vietic language of Thailand. Retrieved 22. Nov. 2017.


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