Todrah language

Todrah
Native to Vietnam
Native speakers
6,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Didrah
  • Modrah
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tdr
Glottolog todr1244[2]

Todrah is an Austroasiatic language of Vietnam. The two dialects, Didrah and Modrah, are quite distinct. Speakers are officially classified by the Vietnamese government as Sedang people.

Distribution

Todrah (Tơ-đrá, Tơtrá, Hđrá) is spoken in Đắk Glei District, Kon Tum town, and Kon Plông District of Kon Tum Province (Le et. al 2014:175)[3]

According to Ethnologue, it is spoken northeast of Kon Tum city, from Kon Hring to Kon Braih.

References

  1. Todrah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Todrah". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Lê Bá Thảo, Hoàng Ma, et. al; Viện hàn lâm khoa học xã hội Việt Nam - Viện dân tộc học. 2014. Các dân tộc ít người ở Việt Nam: các tỉnh phía nam. Ha Noi: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội. ISBN 978-604-90-2436-8


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