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Bahnaric languages

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The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Austroasiatic languages spoken by roughly 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The linguist Paul Sidwell has noted that Austroasiatic languages are lexically more similar to Bahnaric and Katuic the closer they are geographically, regardless of which branch of the family they belong to, but that Bahnaric and Katuic share no innovations that would place them together as a single branch of Austroasiatic.

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Classification Confidence
Established 1
Reconstructed Ancestor
Reconstructed 2
Region
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos 2
Speaker Count
700,000 2
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Number of Languages
36 1
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The Bahnaric languages are a group of about thirty Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
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1. Glottolog: Bahnaric (languoid record)
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  • Languoid record: child_language_count
    "child_language_count": 36
  • Languoid record: level and category
    "level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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2. Bahnaric languages, Wikipedia
  • Opening paragraph, region
    spoken by about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
  • Opening paragraph, speakers
    about 700,000 people in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
  • Infobox: protoname
    Proto-Bahnaric
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Wikidata: Bahnaric languages
Wikidata Q56309, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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