Pearic

E216898

Pearic is a small branch of Austroasiatic languages spoken by indigenous Pearic peoples in parts of Cambodia and Thailand.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Pearic canonical 2

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language branch
branch of languages
ethnicity Pearic peoples
geographicDistribution Cardamom Mountains region
southeastern Thailand
southwestern Cambodia
linked to: Khmer Krom region

western Cambodia
linked to: Cambodia
hasAlternativeName Pearic languages
hasCharacteristic highly fragmented speaker communities
severely declining number of speakers
strong influence from Khmer
strong influence from Thai
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Khmer
language shift to Thai
socioeconomic pressure on indigenous communities
hasMember Chong
Chung
linked to: Chong

Kasong
Pear
Samre
Sa’och
Somray
Suoy
hasMorphologicalType analytic
hasNeighboringLanguage Khmer
Thai
hasPhonologicalFeature complex vowel systems (in several member languages)
hasSyntax basic SVO word order (in most member languages)
hasWritingSystem no widely used indigenous writing system
languageFamily Austroasiatic
linguisticClassification Mon-Khmer branch of Austroasiatic
partOf Austroasiatic language family
linked to: Austroasiatic
riskLevel severely endangered language group
spokenBy Pearic peoples
small speech communities
spokenIn Cambodia
Thailand
status endangered
subclassOf Austroasiatic languages
linked to: Austroasiatic
subjectOf comparative Austroasiatic linguistic research
usedBy indigenous minority groups in Cambodia
indigenous minority groups in Thailand

How these facts were elicited

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

Mon-Khmer hasSubfamily Pearic
Austroasiatic hasLanguage Pearic