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Native Speakers Worldwide

<100

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East and Southeast Asia
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<100

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Ethnic Population

<1,000

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Vietnam and Laos

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Location description

Vietnam: western Quang Binh Province; Laos: eastern Khammouan Province.

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Vietnam: western Quang Binh Province; Laos: eastern Khammouan Province.

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Included in the Chíut ethnic minority in Vietnam, formerly hunter-gatherers.

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Ethnic Population

102

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"The need to find marital partners outside the group has the consequence that only a minority of Arem, about a quarter, regularly speak their language. The Arem language is in great danger of extinction." (p.1)

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Laos; Vietnam

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Location description

Vietnam: Quảng Bình province, Bố-trạch district, Tântrạch commune, Cà Ròong hamlet

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Vietnam: Quảng Bình province, Bố-trạch district, Tântrạch commune, Cà Ròong hamlet

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Vietnamese; Khùa; Lao

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all

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"The Arem language is not homogeneous, the pressure of neighboring languages is exerted on the individuals rather than on the group. The speakers are at least bilingual with Vietnamese, standard as well as dialectal, and some people can also speak Khùa or Lao." (p.1)

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Native Speakers Worldwide

100

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Year of info

2010

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18.1771,105.3369

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

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There are 20 speakers in Viet Nam (Ferlus 1996). The ethnic population in Viet Nam is 100 (Ferlus 1996).

Year of info

2009

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Vietnam; Laos

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. East and Southeast Asia
    Bradley, David. 2007. "East and Southeast Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
  6. Arem, a Vietic Language
    Ferlus, Michel. 2014. Arem, a Vietic Language. Mon-Khmer Studies 43:1-15.
    http://www.mksjournal.org/mks43ferlus.pdf