Ta'Oi language

Ta'Oi
Ta'Oi
Ta Oi
Native to	Laos, Vietnam
Ethnicity	Ta Oi, Katang
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1995–2005)
Language family	Austroasiatic Katuic Ta'Oi; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; tth – Upper Ta'Oi; irr – Ir (Hantong); oog – Ong (= Ir); tto – Lower Ta'Oi; ngt – Ngeq (Kriang)
Glottolog	taoi1247
ELP	Chatong

Ta'Oi (Ta'Oih, Ta Oi) is a

Thừa Thiên-Huế province in Vietnam

Varieties

Sidwell (2005) lists the following varieties of Ta'Oi, which is a name applied to speakers of various related dialects.

Chatong is spoken about 50 to 100 km northeast of Sekong. It has been recorded only by Theraphan L-Thongkum.
Kriang (Ngkriang, Ngeq) is spoken by up to 4,000 people living in villages between Tatheng and Sekong, such as Ban Chakamngai.
Kataang (Katang) is a dialect that has been documented by
Gerard Diffloth, and other linguists. It is not to be confused with the Bru dialect of Katang.^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ	ʔ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	l	j

Diphthongs
	Front	Central	Back
Close	ia	ɨa	ua

^ Upper Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ir (Hantong) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ong (= Ir) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Lower Ta'Oi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ngeq (Kriang) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Mon-Khmer Classification (draft)". SEAlang. 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
^ Sidwell, Paul (2005). pp. 12-15