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Stieng
Stieng
Native to	Vietnam; Cambodia;
Native speakers	57,000 Bulo Stieng (2008); Vietnam: 50,200 (2009); Cambodia: 6,540 (2008)
Language family	Austroasiatic Nuclear Mon-Khmer Khmero-Vietic Khmero-Bahnaric Bahnaric South Bahnaric Stieng; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Khmer, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; sti – Bulo Stieng; stt – Budeh Stieng

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Stieng (IPA: [stiə̯ŋ], Vietnamese: Xtiêng, Khmer: ស្ទៀង) is the language of the Stieng people of southern Vietnam and adjacent areas of Cambodia. Along with Chrau and Mnong, Stieng is classified as a language of the the South Bahnaric grouping of the Mon-Khmer languages within the Austro-Asiatic language family. In the Austro-Asiatic scheme, the Bahnaric languages are often cited as being most closely related to the Khmer language.

There are noted dialects of Stieng, some of which may not be mutually intelligible. However, due to the lack of widely available research, this article will primarily describe the dialect known as Bulo Stieng spoken in the provinces of Binh Phuoc, Lam Dong, Tay Ninh in southwestern Vietnam and Kratie (Snuol District) and Mondulkiri provinces in adjacent areas of eastern Cambodia.^[4]^[5] Bulo Stieng is spoken in more remote areas of the mountains and jungles alongside its close relative, Mnong. Other dialects, including Bu Dek and Bu Biek, are spoken in the lowlands and exhibit more influence from Vietnamese.

Unlike many other Mon-Khmer languages, Stieng does not distinguish voice quality, nor is it a tonal language like Vietnamese.^[4] Words may be either monosyllabic or sesquisyllabic.

Phonology

Consonants

Haupers (1969) analyzes Stieng as having 25 consonant phonemes with three-way contrasts of voiced, unvoiced and pre-glottalized with aspiration described as a consonant cluster involving simple (i.e. not pre-glottalized) stops plus /h/.^[4] Analyses which include the aspirated series as independent phonemes yield 33 consonants and a five-way contrast.

		Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t		c	k
	Voiceless Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		cʰ	kʰ	ʔ
	Voiced	b	d		ɟ	ɡ
	Voiced Aspirated	bʰ	dʰ		ɟʰ	ɡʰ
	Pre-glottalized	ʔb	ʔd
Nasal	Voiced	m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Nasal	Preglottalized	ʔm	ʔn
Fricative	Voiceless		s		(ç)		h
Approximant	Voiced	w	l	r (ɾ)	j
	Preglottalized		ʔl		ʔj

Consonants appearing in syllable coda are devoiced and unreleased. For the alveolar approximate, the trilled [r] is found in free variation with the flapped [ɾ]. The voiceless palatal fricative [ç] appears only in syllable coda as a complimentary allophone of [s].

Vowels

The Stieng vowel system consists of fifteen monophthongs and two diphthongs. In addition to vowel quality, quantitative length (duration) is also phonemic for vowels other than [ɛ] ([æ]) in closed syllables. The vowel [ɛ] ([æ]) is short before h and long elsewhere. This lack of minimal pairs for [ɛ] ([æ]) and [ɛː] ([æː]) suggests that [ɛ], [æ], [ɛː] and [æː] are all allophones.^[4]

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iə̯	ɨ	ɨː	u	uː uə̯
Close-mid	e (ɪ)	eː (ɪː)				oː
Open-mid	ɛ (æ)	ɛː (æː)		ʌː		ɔː
Open			a	aː	ɑ

Symbols in parenthesis represent allophonic variations.

References

^ General Statistics Office of Vietnam 2009 Census
^ Cambodian Government National Institute of Statistics 2008 Census
^ Diffloth, Gérard 2005. "The contribution of linguistic palaeontology and Austroasiatic". in Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. 77–80. London: Routledge Curzon.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Haupers, Ralph. "Stieng Phonemes." The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal. 3. (1969): 131-137.
^ Ethnologue

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[GSOVN-1] General Statistics Office of Vietnam 2009 Census

[NIS2008-2] Cambodian Government National Institute of Statistics 2008 Census

[Diffloth2005-3] Diffloth, Gérard 2005. "The contribution of linguistic palaeontology and Austroasiatic". in Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. 77–80. London: Routledge Curzon.

[Haupers-4] Haupers, Ralph. "Stieng Phonemes." The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal. 3. (1969): 131-137.

[ethnologue-5] Ethnologue

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