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Kri language
Kri (Krìì) is a Vietic language spoken by the Kri people of Laos and Vietnam.
Alternative names for Kri include Karii, K[a]ri-Phoong, Kha Phoong, Coi, and Salang.
Kri speakers live in the Upper Ñrong (Nam Noy) valley of Khammouane Province, Laos, as well as other locations within the Nakai-Nam Theun Biodiversity Conservation Area. It is mutually intelligible with Pròòngq, which is spoken in several villages downstream from the Kri (Enfield & Diffloth 2009).
Kri is spoken in the following villages of Laos and Vietnam.
The Kri call themselves mleeng Kri, and their language meengq Kri. They are swidden cultivators who move every 2–3 years among pre-existing village sites (Chamberlain 1998). Houses are torn down after the death of a household member, and the housing materials are then used to construct a new house in a different location. Other than the Kri language, many adults, especially men, are also fluent in Vietnamese, Saek, Bru, and Lao.
Kri has been studied by the Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition in 2012.
The consonants in Kri are:
These are the consonants that may come at the end of a syllable in Kri:
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Kri language
Kri (Krìì) is a Vietic language spoken by the Kri people of Laos and Vietnam.
Alternative names for Kri include Karii, K[a]ri-Phoong, Kha Phoong, Coi, and Salang.
Kri speakers live in the Upper Ñrong (Nam Noy) valley of Khammouane Province, Laos, as well as other locations within the Nakai-Nam Theun Biodiversity Conservation Area. It is mutually intelligible with Pròòngq, which is spoken in several villages downstream from the Kri (Enfield & Diffloth 2009).
Kri is spoken in the following villages of Laos and Vietnam.
The Kri call themselves mleeng Kri, and their language meengq Kri. They are swidden cultivators who move every 2–3 years among pre-existing village sites (Chamberlain 1998). Houses are torn down after the death of a household member, and the housing materials are then used to construct a new house in a different location. Other than the Kri language, many adults, especially men, are also fluent in Vietnamese, Saek, Bru, and Lao.
Kri has been studied by the Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition in 2012.
The consonants in Kri are:
These are the consonants that may come at the end of a syllable in Kri: