Alak | |
States: | Laos |
Ethnicity: | Alak people |
Speakers: | 4,000 |
Date: | 2007 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austro-Asiatic |
Fam2: | Bahnaric |
Fam3: | Central |
Iso3: | alk |
Glotto: | alak1253 |
Glottorefname: | Alak |
Script: | Lao script, Khom script |
Alak is a language spoken by some 4,000 people in southern Laos, especially in the Provinces of Salavan and Sekong (where the Alak people make up over a fifth of the population). It is closely related to the language spoken by the Bahnars of Vietnam. It includes two dialects, Alak proper and Harak.[1]