A grammar of Bih
Tam Thi Minh Nguyen. 2013. A grammar of Bih. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon.
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
500
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
No monolingual in Bih; all ethnic Bih speak Ede and/or Vietnamese. Bih grammar is heavily influenced by Ede due to language contact and shift.
Location and Context
Countries
Vietnam
Location Description
"in Buon Trap town in the district of Krong Ana, with a small population resident in the neighboring districts of Lak in the east, where Mnong people live, and in the district of Cư Kuiñ in the north and in Buôn Ma Thuột city in the northwest, and in the district of Krông Nô in the south where Ede is the dominant language" (p. 5-6)
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Ede; Vietnamese
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all
Domains of Other Languages:
all
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
yes
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
based on the Ede orthography
Recent Resources
Bih is a Chamic language spoken in the Southern highlands of Vietnam, closely related to Ede (also c
This document by James A.