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Palaung (De'ang, Ta'ang)
Native to: Burma, China, Thailand
Ethnicity: Palaung
Native speakers: (ca. 560,000 cited 1982–??)
Language family: Austroasiatic

also known as De'ang, is a Mon–Khmer dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma (Shan State) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé, Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language. The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages.

A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date. Palaung was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO's 2010 Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaung_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaung_people
https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/palaung-language-identity
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Palaung
https://omniglot.com/writing/palaung.htm
http://bible.is/

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