Tai-Kadai · ISO 639-3 kmc
Southern Dong Language Gaeml
Southern Dong is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Southern Dong is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Southern Dong
Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Kam-Tai
- Kam-Sui
- Mulam-Kam
- Kamic
- Southern Dong
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Southern Dong language
Southern Dong (Gaeml) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 370th most spoken language in the world — just behind Khams Tibetan (1.5 million) and ahead of Liberian English (1.5 million). It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family and, more precisely, to the Kamic group within the Kam-Sui branch.
Where is Southern Dong spoken?
Southern Dong is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.5 million).
Southern Dong is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Southern Dong is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Northern Dong.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kmc.
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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.