Tai-Kadai · ISO 639-3 doc
Northern Dong Language Gaeml
Northern Dong is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Northern Dong is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Northern Dong
Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Kam-Tai
- Kam-Sui
- Mulam-Kam
- Kamic
- Northern Kam
- Northern Dong
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Northern Dong language
Northern Dong (Gaeml) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 364th most spoken language in the world — just behind Lampung Nyo (1.5 million) and ahead of Dombe (1.5 million). It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family and, more precisely, to the Northern Kam group within the Kam-Sui branch.
Where is Northern Dong spoken?
Northern Dong is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.5 million).
Northern Dong is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Dong is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Southern Dong.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 doc.
Frequently asked questions about Northern Dong
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.