Nyahkur
[aka Nyah Kur (Tha Pong), Nyah Kur, Nyakur]Classification: Austro-Asiatic
·endangered
Classification: Austro-Asiatic
·endangered
Nyah Kur (Tha Pong), Nyah Kur, Nyakur, Niakuol, Niakuoll, "Chaobon", "Chaodon", Lawa, Chaobon, Chaodon |
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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
~20,000
Spoken by about 10,000 of the ethnic group, including a few children, especially in Chaiyaphum Province; but most of the young are semispeakers at best.
Northeastern, southern Phetchabun, western Chaiyaphum and northwestern Korat provinces.
Ethnic group of about 20,000, very widely dispersed in the low hills between the central plain and the northeastern plateau of Thailand; remnant of the Mon of the Dvaravati kingdom.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3000
"No monolinguals." Data for the number of native speakers comes from C. Shimmin (2006). Data for the ethnic population is from Theraphan (1984).
The number of speakers is decreasing.
Information from: “Personal communication” . Charlie Shimmin (2012)
There are 4 dialects, 3 of which are very closely related. In Korat province, only the older people still speak the language. In Chaiyaphum province, there are still children who speak the language, but not nearly as many as there were 30 years ago in Nyah Kur village. There are perhaps a couple hundred Nyah Kur in Petchabun province, but that dialect is the one which is very different from the other three dialects.
The number of speakers of the language is definitely decreasing.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press