Alak language

Alak
Alak
Native to	Laos
Ethnicity	Alak people
Native speakers	4,000 (2007)
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric Central Alak; ; ;
Writing system	Lao script, Khom script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alk
Glottolog	alak1253

Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern Laos, especially in the Provinces of Salavan and Sekong (where the Alak people make up over a fifth of the population). It is closely related to the language spoken by the Bahnars of Vietnam. It includes two dialects, Alak proper and Harak.^[2]

References

^ Alak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in Mon-Khmer Studies, volume 27

External links

https://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903B-B@view Alak in RWAAI Digital Archive

This Austroasiatic language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[e18-1] Alak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in Mon-Khmer Studies, volume 27

[1]

[2]