Arem language

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The Arem language is a highly endangered Vietic language spoken by a small ethnic minority in parts of Laos and Vietnam.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Vietic language
endangered language
natural language
continent Asia
country Laos NERFINISHED
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
documentationStatus limited linguistic descriptions available
poorly documented
endangermentStatus moribund
severely endangered
ethnicGroup Arem people NERFINISHED
family Vietic NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chut Arem
Umo NERFINISHED
hasNeighboringLanguage Mày language NERFINISHED
Phong language NERFINISHED
Rục language NERFINISHED
Sách language NERFINISHED
Vietnamese language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
rich vowel system
hasSociolinguisticProperty used mainly by older speakers
younger generations shifting to Vietnamese
hasSyntacticFeature SVO word order (approximate)
isInfluencedBy Lao language NERFINISHED
Vietnamese language NERFINISHED
ISO6393Code aem
isUsedFor oral communication
languageFamily Austroasiatic NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers <100
dozens
region border area between Vietnam and Laos
central Vietnam
riskFactor lack of intergenerational transmission
language shift to dominant languages
small speaker population
spokenBy Arem people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Bố Trạch district NERFINISHED
Laos NERFINISHED
Quảng Bình province NERFINISHED
Vietnam NERFINISHED
subfamily Western Vietic
subgroup Chut languages
writingSystem no widely used writing system

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vietic languages endangeredMembers Arem language
Chut hasLanguage Arem language
Vietic peoples hasLinguisticBranch Arem language
Vietic languages hasMember Arem language
Arem language Arem language