Padaung | |
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Kayan | |
Native to | Burma |
Ethnicity | Kayan people |
Native speakers | 130,000 (2005)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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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]
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:
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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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 |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ | u |
High-mid | e | ə | o |
Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Low | a | ||
Diphthongs | ai | əɨ | au |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Mid | eŋ | əŋ | oŋ |
Low | aŋ |