Documentation and description of the Pakatan language spoken in Hoanh Son, Quang Binh province, Vietnam.
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
The Pakatan/Maleng/Bo language (henceforth Pakatan) has less than a thousand speakers. The variety spoken in the mountainous area of Hoanh Son, in the Vietnamese province of Quang Binh, is called Malieng is estimated to have around 200 speakers, who live in half a dozen villages around the area. Pakatan is spoken in both Vietnam, where receives the name Malieng, and Laos. This language must not be confused with Malieng, a Chut language variety. Pakatan is a Vietic language (Viet-Muong) with less than a thousand speakers. The community was originally formed by collectors and traders who have become emergent mountain agriculture sedentists.
Primary investigator: Albert Badosa i Roldós
Project Details
Location: Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): SOAS, University of London
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: £9,978.00
Commencement Date: 01/2015
Project Status: Active
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