Mlabri
Mlabri (Minor); Mla; Mla Bri; Mla-Bri; Mabri; Mrabri; Yumbri; Ma Ku; Yellow Leaf; Phi Thong Luang ("Spirits of yellow leaves"); มละบริ; เผ่าตองหลือง; ผีตองหลือง
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Nothern Thai; Standard Thai; White Hmong; Mien dialects
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migration from Laos to Thailand in the second half of the 20th century
2015
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5 villages in Nan and Phrae provinces of Thailand; Sayabouli Province of Laos.
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5 villages in Nan and Phrae provinces of Thailand; Sayabouli Province of Laos.
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Nothern Thai; Standard Thai; White Hmong; Mien dialects
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Educated people learn Standard Thai in school.
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A group of about 150 speakers, disrupted by conflict along the Thai/Lao border where they lived. Some have now settled down; and are assimilating into nearby Hmong/Meo and Thai/Lao groups. Only about 100 still speak the language, with two lexically-distinct dialects, one much more endangered than the other, and some extinct dialects.
2007
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Laos and Thailand
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Laos: western Saignabouri Province; Thailand: northeastern Nan Province.
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Laos: western Saignabouri Province; Thailand: northeastern Nan Province.
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Phi Tong Luang means ‘spirits of the yellow leaves’ in Thai and Lao, and refers to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Mrabri and Yumbri are other renderings of the group’s own name.
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300 in Thailand (E. Long 1982).
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, 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
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