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Austroasiatic language spoken in Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Koho or K'Ho is a South Bahnaric language spoken by the Koho people and Mạ people, mainly in the Lâm Đồng Province of Vietnam. It is very close to the Mnong language.
Sre | |
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Kơho | |
Native to | Vietnam |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2019 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:kpm – Kơhocma – Maa |
Glottolog | koho1243 |
The autonym of the Kơho people is kon cau (IPA [kɔn.caw]) while Koho (IPA [kəˈhɔ]) is a Cham exonym.[2]
There are at least twelve Kơho dialect groups for the area: Chil (Cil, Til); Kalop (Tulop); Kơyon (Kodu, Co-Don); Làc (Làt, Lach); Mà (Mạ, Maa); Nồp (Nop, Xre Nop, Noup); Pru; Ryông Tô (Riồng, Rion); Sop, Sre (Chau Sơre, Xrê); Talà (To La); and Tring (Trinh). Although Mạ/Maa is a Koho dialect group, the Mạ people identify as a separate ethnic group.[3][2]
Data below are from Olsen (2015).[2]
Compounding is a common way of coining new words in Koho. Some examples:
One of the more productive prefixes in Sre is the causative tơn- [tən-], converts intransitive verbs to causative verbs. If the prefixed verbs have a nasal initial, then the nasal cluster avoidance rule applied.
Word | Meaning | Prefixed form | Meaning |
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duh [duh] | to be hot | tơnduh [tənduh] | to make hot |
chơt [cʰət] | to die | tơnchơt [təncʰət] | to kill |
ring [riŋ] | to be flat, level, equal | tơnring [tənriŋ] | to equalize, make right |
mut [mut] | to enter | tơmut [təmut] | to make enter |
muu [muː] | to descend, go down | tơmuu [təmuː] | to make descend, to lower |
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