Riang language
Austroasiatic language
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Riang is a Palaungic language of Burma and China. Speakers are culturally assimilated with the Karen, but are Palaung by ancestry and their language is unrelated. Riang Lang (Yinnet) and Riang Lai (Yinchia) are sometimes considered distinct languages.
EthnicityPalaung
Native speakers
(28,000 cited 1995–2008)[1]Austroasiatic
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Khasi–Palaungic
- Palaungic
- Palaung–Riang
- Riang
- Palaung–Riang
- Palaungic
| Riang | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Burma, China |
| Ethnicity | Palaung |
Native speakers | (28,000 cited 1995–2008)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:ril – Riang Langyin – Riang Lai |
| Glottolog | rian1260 |
| ELP | Riang (Myanmar) |
Phonology
Riang Lang (Yinnet) dialect's consonants described by Hall (2018):
- [q, qʰ] are allophones of initials /k kʰ/ when co-occur with /a, aː, ɔ/. Eg. [qáʔ] "fish", [qʰrɔ́] "rust".
- [χ] is the realization of /k/ in final position.
Riang Lang vowels (Hall 2018):
Riang Lang is sesquisyllabic and has two tones. Its typical word template is ((C)ə̆(C)).(C)(C)V(C)t.[2]