Nguôn

Print

Primary tabs

A language of Viet Nam

ISO 639-3
nuo
Alternate Names
Ngouan
User Population

1,000 in Vietnam (Bradley 2007b). Ethnic population: 2,000 (Bradley 2007b). Total users in all countries: 1,760.

Location

Quang Binh province: An Duk, Ba Nuong, Kwi Dat, Tan Kieu, Than Long and 6 other villages.

Language Maps
Language Status

6b* (Threatened).

Classification
Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Viet-Muong, Muong
Dialects

None known. Diffloth (1992) groups Nguôn as a separate language similar to Vietnamese [vie], but Tran (1996) and Ferlus (1996) group it with Muong [mtq].

Language Use

Also use Vietnamese [vie].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Nguôn
Writing

Unwritten [Qaax].

Also spoken in:

Expand All
Collapse All