Kiorr language

Kiorr (Kha Kior) is a Palaungic language of Luang Namtha Province, Laos.

Kiorr
Kha Kior
Native toLaos
Native speakers
(2,400 cited 1985)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xko – inclusive code
Individual code:
cno  Con (spurious per Glottolog)
Glottologkior1239

Diffloth & Zide (1992) had listed Con as a Lametic language. However, it is treated as a dialect of Kiorr in Sidwell (2010).[2][3] Kiorr could be a historical name for the Saamtaav people.[4]

References

  1. Kiorr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Con (spurious per Glottolog) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Sidwell, Paul. (2010). Three Austroasiatic branches and the ASJP (Fig. 23)
  3. SEALang SALA: Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives
  4. Proschan, Frank. (1996). A Survey of Khmuic and Palaungic Languages in Laos and Vietnam. In: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics. Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development. Mahidol University at Salaya Thailand.


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