Duan language (Austroasiatic) explained

Duan
Also Known As:Halang Doan
States:Laos, Vietnam
Date:2000–2007
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Austro-Asiatic
Fam2:Bahnaric
Fam3:North
Fam4:(unclassified)
Iso3:hld
Glotto:hala1253
Glottorefname:Halang Doan

Duan, Doan, or Halang Doan, is a language spoken by more than 4,000 people on either side of the Laotian–Vietnamese border. There are some 2,346 speakers in Attopu Province, Laos, and another couple of thousand in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. It is too poorly known to classify completely and may be mutually intelligible with Takua, Kayong, Halang, and Rengao. Might be a part of the Xơ Ɖăng ethnic group.

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