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5,000

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Language Information By Source

East and Southeast Asia
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,000

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Ethnic Population

7,863

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Ha Giang Province, Vietnam

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Concentrated in and around Phung village.

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Concentrated in and around Phung village.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

250

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Year of info

2010

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22.5304,105.885

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

7,920

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Ethnic Population

9,600

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Other possible number of speakers: 9,016. "7,860 in Viet Nam (1990 census). 3,990 women, in 1,450 households (Liang Min 1990), including Black Lachi 2,500 in 550 households, Long-Haired Lachi 4,500 in 900 households. 10,765 for all La Chi in Viet Nam (1999 census)." Data for the ethnic population comes from D. Bradley (2000).

Year of info

2009

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Vietnam; China;

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2005

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22.6666666667,104.833333333

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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
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    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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  8. Proto-Kra
    Weera Ostapirat. 2000. Proto-Kra. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 23.1: 1-251.
    http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/weera2000proto.pdf