Duan, Doan, or Halang Doan, is a language spoken by more than four thousand people on either side of the
Laotian–
Vietnam
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ese border. There are some 2,346 speakers in
Attopu Province, Laos, and another couple of thousand in
Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. It is too poorly known to classify completely and may be mutually intelligible with
Takua,
Kayong,
Halang, and
Rengao
Rengao is a North Bahnaric language
The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Paul Sidwell notes that Austroasiatic/Mon–Khmer languages are lexica ...
. Might be a part of the Xơ Ɖăng ethnic group.
References
Further reading
*Mole, Robert L. (1968) Peoples of Tribes of South Vietnam. vol. 1. Chapter 9.
*Schrock, Joann, William Stockton Jr., Elaine Murphy, and Marilou Fromme. (1966) Minority Groups in the Republic of Vietnam. Chapter 4.
*Schliesinger, Joachim. 1998. Hill Tribes of Vietnam. vol 2 Profile of the Existing Hill Tribe Groups. (Schliesinger lumps Doan in with the Gie-Trieng ethnic group p.28).
Languages of Laos
Bahnaric languages
Languages of Vietnam
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