Taliang (Tariang, Talieng, Trieng) is a
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 lexically more similar to Bahnaric and Katui ...
spoken by the
Jeh-Tariang people of
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...
and
Vietnam
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. It is possibly related to the
Stieng language
Stieng (, Vietnamese: Xtiêng, Khmer: ) is the language of the Stieng people of southern Vietnam and adjacent areas of Cambodia, and possibly Laos (under the name Tariang). Along with Chrau and Mnong, Stieng is classified as a language of t ...
of Vietnam and Cambodia.
There are various languages that have gone by the name ''Taliang/Trieng'', which means 'headhunters'; SEALang classifies two of these as dialects of the same language as Kasseng.
SEALang SALA: Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives
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Further reading
The Institute for Cultural Research. Ministry of Information and Culture. 2003. The Life and House of the Tariang People. Sponsored by: The Japan Foundation Asia Center.
References
External links
* http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
* http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-903A-0@view Talieng in RWAAI Digital Archive
Bahnaric languages
Languages of Vietnam
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