Talk:Bahnaric languages

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The Bahnaric family is one of the largest and most diverse Austroasiatic branches: it is composed of at least 30 distinct languages spoken by approximately 700,000 people, mostly hill-tribes, living in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It is a very old family that has become typologically diverse as it split into sub-branches. Some Bahnaric languages share less than 40% of basic vocabulary, which indicates an historical separation of around 3000 years. It appears that in ancient times Bahnaric split into three principal branches that we can identify on the basis of unique phonological developments. In addition to the internal history of each branch, there were also complex overlapping external influences as variously the Chams, Khmer, Thais/Laos and Vietnamese have ruled over and fought over Bahnaric territory. The story of the development of the Bahnaric languages is thus a complex tale that we are only now beginning to properly understand. As the languages are all unwritten until modern times, and most are only partly known from fieldwork, comparative reconstruction is necessarily incomplete, but it is now yeilding useful and more or less reliable results.

According to my classification (http://www.anu.edu.au/~a108009), the Bahnaric languages are related as follows:

* West Bahnaric: Jru', Nyaheun, Oi, Laveh, Brao etc.   * North Bahnaric: Sedang, Hrê, Rengao, Jeh, Halang etc.   * Central Bahnaric: West Central: Kasseng, Taliang, Yaeh North Central: Alak East Central: Cua South Central: Tampuon; Bahnar; South Bahnaric

Both the West and North Bahnaric sub-branches are relatively young dialect chains, within which the languages are quite close and obviously related. On the other hand Central Bahnaric is more internally diverse, with the languages spread out over widely separated communities. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 150.203.229.195 (talk • contribs) 03:43, 2 December 2005  (UTC)

Missing
Lamam [lmm] (Cambodia), Romam [rmx] (Vietnam), and Kaco' [xkk] (Cambodia), which Ethnologue lists, are missing from the Central Bahnaric section. Badagnani 07:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Kraol [rka] is not listed here as Bahnaric.Bluethailand (talk) 05:58, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

AustroX
Is that joking? North Bahnaric are Chamic languages (Austronesian) and also Austro-Asiatic? --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 12:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It says North Bahnaric languages are spoken north of the Chamic languages, not that they are Chamic languages. —Angr 12:15, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 12:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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