Sre

Vietnam

200,000 (2019 census)[1]

Latin script

Either:
kpm – Kơho
cma – Maa

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Subgroups and dialects[edit]

There are at least twelve Kơho dialect groups for the area: Chil (Cil, Til); Kalop (Tulop); Kơyon (Kodu, Co-Don); Làc (Làt, Lach); Mà (Mạ, Maa); Nồp (Nop, Xre Nop, Noup); Pru; Ryông Tô (Riồng, Rion); Sop, Sre (Chau Sơre, Xrê); Talà (To La); and Tring (Trinh). Although Mạ/Maa is a Koho dialect group, the Mạ people identify as a separate ethnic group.[3][2]

The phoneme /r/ is commonly a voiced alveolar trill [r] but also often reduces to a flap [ɾ] when it occurs as the second segment in a consonant cluster.

Morphology[edit]

Compounding[edit]

Compounding is a common way of coining new words in Koho. Some examples:

The Vietnamese acrobatic show Teh Dar by Lune Productions uses the Koho language.

Olsen, Neil H. (2014). (Ph.D. thesis). University of Utah.

A descriptive grammar of Kơho-Sre: a Mon-Khmer language