Jarai language
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| Jarai | |
|---|---|
| Djarai, Jarai, Jorai, Jörai, Jơrai | |
| Spoken in | Vietnam, Cambodia, United States (esp. North Carolina (U.S. state)) |
| Total speakers | more than 300 thousand [1] |
| Language family | Chamic |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | none |
| ISO 639-2 | none |
| ISO 639-3 | jra |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | |
Jarai, a minority language of Southeast Asia, is the mother tongue of over 300,000 people, most of them living in the highlands of Vietnam and Cambodia. Jarai is a member of the Chamic language family, from the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian. The name Jarai designates both the Jarai ethnic group and the language.
Jarai is written with a Roman alphabet resembling that used for Vietnamese. However, unlike Vietnamese, Jarai is not a tone language, so very few diacritics are needed.