Padaung language

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Padaung
Kayan
Native to Burma
Ethnicity Kayan people
Native speakers
130,000 (2005) [1]
Sino-Tibetan
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pdu
Glottolog kaya1315

Kayan, also known as, Padaung or Padaung Karen) is a Karen language of Burma, spoken by the Kayan people. The Kayan dialects share more than 90% lexical similarity. [2] Padaung is 71% to 76% lexically similar to Lahta. [3]

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Distribution

Internal classification

The Kayan languages are spoken in Kayah State, southern Shan State, and northern Karen State. There are four branches according to Shintani (2016), [10] namely: [11]

Nangki (sometimes called Langki), documented in Shintani (2016), is one of the Kayan languages belonging to the Kakhaung subgroup. It is spoken only in one village.

Pekong Kayan is documented in Manson (2010).

Sonkan Kayan and Dosanbu Kayan are documented in Shintani (2018a, b). [12] [13] Shintani has also documented:by families or by villages as below:

Dimawso Kayan, a Kayan variety spoken in Wanbanbalo village, Dimawso township, Kayah State, Myanmar, is described in Lew (2018). [28]

Ethnologue lists Padaung (Kayan) dialects as:

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t c k ʔ
aspirated pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ
voiced b d ɟ ɡ
Fricative θ h
Nasal m n ŋ
Rhotic ɾ
Approximant lateral l
central w j

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
High-mid e ə o
Low-mid ɛ ɔ
Low a
Diphthongs aiəɨau
Nasal coda
Front Central Back
Mid eŋəŋoŋ
Low aŋ

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References

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  10. ↑ Shintani, Tadahiko. 2016. The Nangki language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 109. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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  12. ↑ Shintani, Tadahiko. 2018. The Sonkan Kayan language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 118. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
  13. ↑ Shintani Tadahiko. 2018. The Dosanbu Kayan language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 120. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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  21. ↑ Shintani, Tadahiko. 2021. The Dolan Kayan language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 132. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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  23. ↑ Shintani, Tadahiko. 2021. The Diklon Kayan language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 134. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
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  28. ↑ Lew, Sigrid (2018). Preliminary phonology of Dimawso Kayan, Myanmar. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, held May 17–19, 2018 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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