Padaung language

For the unrelated "Kayan" dialect cluster spoken by the Kayan people of Borneo, see Kayan language (Borneo).
Padaung
Kayan
Native toBurma
EthnicityKayan people
Native speakers
500,000 (2005)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3pdu
Glottologkaya1315

Kayan, also known as, Padaung or Padaung Karen) is a Karen language of Burma, spoken by the Kayan people. The Kayan dialects share more than 90% lexical similarity.[2] Padaung is 71% to 76% lexically similar to Lahta.[3]

  1. ^ Padaung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.
  3. ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.