Ugong
Lawa; 'Ugong; Gong; Ugawng; Kanburi Lawa;
Sino-Tibetan; Lolo-Burmese
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ugo
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~500
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2010
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Western Central Thailand (Kok Chiang village in Suphanburi สุพรรณบุรี, and Khok Khway village in Uthai Thani อุทัยธานี, Thailand)
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Western Central Thailand (Kok Chiang village in Suphanburi สุพรรณบุรี, and Khok Khway village in Uthai Thani อุทัยธานี, Thailand)
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practice exogamy. Most non-Gong spouses in Kok Chiang are from Laos, and non-Gong spouses in Khok Khway are mostly Thai.
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Of 500 people in these two villages, about eighty still speak the language: about twenty fluent speakers over fifty years old and additional semi-speakers of varying ability as young as thirty.
2007
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Northwestern Suphanburi and south- western Uthai Thani provinces
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Northwestern Suphanburi and south- western Uthai Thani provinces
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Called Lawa in Thai, a composite group which includes various Mon-Khmer groups as well as Gong.
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Speaker number data: (D. Bradley 2000)
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Kanchanaburi, Uthai Thani, Suphanburi
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one village in Uthai Thani (อุทัยธานี) Province and two villages in Suphanburi (สุพรรณบุรี) Province, Thailand.
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one village in Uthai Thani (อุทัยธานี) Province and two villages in Suphanburi (สุพรรณบุรี) Province, Thailand.
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This study is conducted in the Kok Chiang village of Suphanburi (สุพรรณบุรี) Province, Thailand. According to the author, "Gong speakers expressed a neutral attitude toward their ethnic group, and a positive attitude toward their language and themselves."
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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/
- 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
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
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