Riang is a

Palaungic The Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages are a group of nearly 30 Austroasiatic languages, with scholars disagreeing on exactly which languages to include in the classification. They are spoken in scattered pockets across an inland region of South ...

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.

Phonology

Riang Lang consonants described by Hall (2018): Vowels (Hall 2018): Riang Lang is

sesquisyllabic Primarily in Austroasiatic languages (also known as Mon–Khmer), in a typical word, a minor syllable, presyllable, or sesquisyllable, is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may be of the for ...

and has two tones. Its typical word template is ((C)ə̆(C)).(C)(C)V(C)t.Hall, Elizabeth. (2018) ''A phonological analysis of Riang Lang''. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (JSEALS), 11:2

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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 Yunnan {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub