Rengao is a North Bahnaric language. It is spoken in parts of south and central Vietnam.
| Rengao | |
|---|---|
| Ro-Ngao | |
| Native to | Vietnam |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2007)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ren |
| Glottolog | reng1252 |
 | |
Phonology
edit| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k | ||||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ʂ | x | h | |||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ʐ | ɣ | |||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a | ɑ |
References
edit- ↑ Rengao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
edit- J. Gregerson, Kenneth; Gregerson, Marilyn (2026). A Grammar and Dictionary of Rengao: An Austroasiatic Language of the Vietnam Central Highlands. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004755178.