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'''Oi''' (''Oy, Oey''; also known as '''The''', '''Thang Ong''', '''Sok''') is a [[Mon–Khmer languages|Mon–Khmer]] [[dialect cluster]] of [[Attapeu Province]] in southern [[Laos]]. According to [[Ethnologue]], the dominant variety is Oy proper, with 15,000 speakers who are 80% monolinguals. Speakers follow traditional religions. The 2005 Laotian census places the Oi population at 22,458. |
'''Oi''' (''Oy, Oey''; also known as '''The''', '''Thang Ong''', '''Sok''') is a [[Mon–Khmer languages|Mon–Khmer]] [[dialect cluster]] of [[Attapeu Province]] in southern [[Laos]]. According to [[Ethnologue]], the dominant variety is Oy proper, with 15,000 speakers who are 80% monolinguals. Speakers follow traditional religions. The 2005 Laotian census places the Oi population at 22,458. Oy and The were merged together in the 18th edition of the Ethnologue. |
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==Distribution== |
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| Oy | |
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| Oi | |
| Native to | Laos |
Native speakers | (18,000 Oi, The, & Cheng cited 2000–2007)[2] plus 4,000 Sok & Sapuan (1981) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:oyb – Oy[1]skk – Sok (Sork)spu – Sapuanjeg – Cheng |
| Glottolog | oith1238 Oi–Thesapu1247 Sapuan–Sokjeng1241 Jeng |
Oi (Oy, Oey; also known as The, Thang Ong, Sok) is a Mon–Khmer dialect cluster of Attapeu Province in southern Laos. According to Ethnologue, the dominant variety is Oy proper, with 15,000 speakers who are 80% monolinguals. Speakers follow traditional religions. The 2005 Laotian census places the Oi population at 22,458. Oy and The were merged together in the 18th edition of the Ethnologue.
Distribution
Some locations where Oi is spoken in include (Sidwell 2003:26):
- Ban Sok, 40 km north of Attapeu
- Ban Lagnao, 10 km northwest of Attapeu
- Ban Inthi, 25 km southwest of Attapeu; speakers claim to have migrated from the Boloven Plateau about 80 years ago, around the time of the Kommandam Rebellion.
- Ban Mai, at the southern slope of the Boloven Plateau
- Ban Champao, at the southern slope of the Boloven Plateau
- Sepian forest, as far as the Khampo River
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Oy[1] at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Sok (Sork) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Sapuan at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- Sidwell, Paul (2003). A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.