ELP ID
11448
ELP Language
Mlabri
Speaker Number
10-99
Ethnic Population
~150
Public Comment
A group of about 150 speakers, disrupted by conflict along the Thai/Lao border where they lived. Some have now settled down; and are assimilating into nearby Hmong/Meo and Thai/Lao groups. Only about 100 still speak the language, with two lexically-distinct dialects, one much more endangered than the other, and some extinct dialects.
Source
East and Southeast Asia
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
~100
Speaker Number Range
10-99