Pacoh language

The Pacoh language is a member of the Katuic language group, a part of the Eastern [http://www.uiowa.edu/~linguist/faculty/beckman/lotw01/languages/austro-asiatic.html] Mon-Khmer linguistic branch. Most Pacoh speakers live in central Laos and central Vietnam.cite encyclpedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/table?tocId=9116040&idxStructId=628547&typeId= |title=Table 41: Austroasiatic languages |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica Online |accessdate=2007-09-11] Pacoh is undergoing substantial change, influenced by the Vietnamese.cite web |url=http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/580.html |title=A grammar of Pacoh: A Mon-Khmer language of the central highlands of Vietnam |publisher=Pacific Linguistics Publishers |author=Mark J. Alves |accessdate=2007-09-11]

Pacoh is spoken by 10,000-15,000 people, therefore, approaching the level of an endangered language.cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/malves98/photographs_for_your_viewing_ple.html |title=The Pacoh People: Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam |accessdate=2007-09-11] About 70% of Pacoh are mono-lingual, meaning they only speak their own language.

Approximately 15-25% of Pacoh adults are able to read. The Gospels of Mark and John were translated into Pacoh by missionaries in 1965, but it's unclear how many Pacoh could read them.fact|date=January 2008

Pacoh is related to Phuong.cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.org/14/show_language.asp?code=PAC |title=PACOH: a language of Viet Nam |accessdate=2007-09-11]

Its alternate names are: Paco, Pokoh, Bo River Van Kieu. Its dialects are Pahi {Ba-Hi).

Classification

ISO 639-2

Further reading

* Alves, M. J. (2006). "A grammar of Pacoh: a Mon-Khmer language of the central highlands of Vietnam". Pacific linguistics, 580. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. ISBN 0858835681

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/malves98/Alves_Pacoh_Pronouns_Grammaticalization.pdf|Pacoh Pronouns and Grammaticalization Clines]
* [http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/580.html A grammar of Pacoh: A Mon-Khmer language of the central highlands of Vietnam]
* [http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/L/L2314.html The language has these sounds]