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Mlabri
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<400

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Ethnic Population

400

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migration from Laos to Thailand in the second half of the 20th century

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

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Thailand; Laos

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Location description

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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Other languages used

Nothern Thai; Standard Thai; White Hmong; Mien dialects

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Educated people learn Standard Thai in school.

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

149

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Year of info

2010

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18.4796,101.0961

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~100

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~150

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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.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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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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324

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300 in Thailand (E. Long 1982).

Year of info

2009

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Laos; Thailand;

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Year of info

2005

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18.5,101.0

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