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Ta'Oi (Ta'Oih, Ta Oi) is a Katuic dialect chain of Salavan and Sekong provinces in Laos, and in Thừa Thiên-Huế province in Vietnam (Sidwell 2005:12).

Ta'Oi
Ta Oi
Native to	Laos, Vietnam
Ethnicity	Ta Oi, Katang
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1995–2005)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Katuic Ta'Oi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: tth – Upper Ta'Oi irr – Ir (Hantong) oog – Ong (= Ir) tto – Lower Ta'Oi ngt – Ngeq (Kriang)
Glottolog	taoi1247
ELP	Chatong

Varieties

Sidwell (2005) lists the following varieties of Ta'Oi, which is a name applied to speakers of various related dialects.

• Ta'Oi proper
• Ong/Ir/Talan
• Chatong is spoken about 50 to 100 km northeast of Sekong. It has been recorded only by Theraphan L-Thongkum.
• Kriang (Ngkriang, Ngeq) is spoken by up to 4,000 people living in villages between Tatheng and Sekong, such as Ban Chakamngai.
• Kataang (Katang) is a dialect that has been documented by Michel Ferlus, Gerard Diffloth, and other linguists. It is not to be confused with the Bru dialect of Katang.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	l	j

• There are also creaky syllable-final segments /mʔ, nʔ, ŋʔ, wʔ, lʔ, jʔ/, however; they are not noted as a distinct series.
• /ɟ/ may also be heard as a preglottal sound [ʔj].[3]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː	ɨ ɨː	u uː
Mid	e eː	ə əː	o oː
Open	ɛ ɛː	a aː	ɔ ɔː

Diphthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ia	ɨa	ua

References

Further reading

• Sidwell, Paul (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-802-7
• Trần Nguyễn Khánh Phong. 2013. Người Tà Ôi ở A Lưới. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
• Miller, Carolyn (2017). "Notes on Northern Katang Kinship and Society". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 10 (2): xxiii–xxix. hdl:10524/52410.
• Gehrmann, Ryan. 2017. The Historical Phonology of Kriang, A Katuic Language. JSEALS Volume 10.1 (2017).

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