Samre language of Pursat

Samre
Native toThailand, Cambodia
RegionTrat Province
formerly Pursat Province
Ethnicity200 (2000)[1][but this is the figure for Somre of Siem Reap, which is a Northern Chong dialect]
Native speakers
(20–30 cited 1998)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
ELPSamre

Samre (Samre pronunciation: [samɣeː]), is a nearly extinct Pearic language of Thailand and, formerly, Cambodia. The language is evidently extinct in Cambodia,[1][but this is the figure for Somre of Siem Reap, which is a Northern Chong dialect] but a 1998 survey found 20–30 speakers in Nonsi Subdistrict, Bo Rai District, Trat Province, Thailand and estimated the total number of people able to speak the language to be 200.[2]

  1. ^ a b Somre of Siem Reap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Pornsawan Ploykaew. 2001, "The phonology of Samre", in Mon-Khmer Studies, vol. 31, pp. 15-27