Cheq Wong (Ceq Wong, Chewong) is an

Austroasiatic language The Austroasiatic languages ( ) are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority popu ...

spoken in the Malay Peninsula by the

Cheq Wong people Cheq Wong people are an indigenous Orang Asli people of the Senoi branch in Peninsular Malaysia. Although they have the physical appearance of the Senoi sub-group, the Cheq Wong language that they speak is closely related to the Jahaic languages, ...

. It belongs to the

Northern Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating ...

subbranch of the

Aslian languages The Aslian languages () are the southernmost branch of Austroasiatic languages spoken on the Malay Peninsula. They are the languages of many of the ''Orang Asli'', the aboriginal inhabitants of the peninsula. The total number of native speakers o ...

. Northern Aslian was labelled Jehaic in the past.

References

* Howell, S. (1982). ''Chewong myths and legends''. Kuala Lumpur: Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works. * Howell, S. (1984). ''Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia''. Singapore: Oxford University Press. * Kruspe, N. (2009). "Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia". In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.). ''Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook of lexical borrowing''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 659-685. * Kruspe, N., N. Burenhult & E. Wnuk. (2014). "Northern Aslian". In: P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (eds.). ''The Handbook of Austroasiatic languages''. Brill Publishers. pp. 419-474.

External links

Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database (WOLD). Munich: Max Planck Digital Library
*http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6702-D@view Ceq Wong in RWAAI Digital Archive *ELAR archive o
Ceq Wong (and Mah Meri) language documentation materials
Languages of Malaysia Aslian languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub

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