Riang is a

Palaungic The nearly thirty Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages. Phonological developments Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austroasiatic consonants, with the disti ...

language of Burma and China. Speakers are culturally assimilated with the

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, but are Palaung by ancestry and their language is unrelated. Riang Lang and Riang Lai (Yinchia) are sometimes considered distinct languages.

References

*Shintani Tadahiko. 2014. ''The Riang language''. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 101. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). Languages of Myanmar Palaungic languages Languages of China {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub