Cheq Wong language

Cheq Wong (Ceq Wong, Chewong) is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the Malay Peninsula by the Cheq Wong people. It belongs to the Northern subbranch of the Aslian languages. Northern Aslian was labelled Jehaic in the past.

Cheq Wong
Ceq Wong, Chewong
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Peninsula Malaysia
Native speakers	460 (2008)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Aslian Jahaic Cheq Wong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cwg
Glottolog	chew1245
ELP	Chewong

An ethnographic map of the Malay Peninsula showing were the Cheq Wong people live (in green).

References

1. Cheq Wong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading

• Howell, S. (1982). Chewong myths and legends. Kuala Lumpur: Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Art Printing Works.
• Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
• Kruspe, N. (2009). "Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia". In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.). Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook of lexical borrowing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 659-685.
• Kruspe, N., N. Burenhult & E. Wnuk. (2014). "Northern Aslian". In: P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (eds.). The Handbook of Austroasiatic languages. Brill Publishers. pp. 419-474.

External links

• Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database (WOLD). Munich: Max Planck Digital Library
• http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
• http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6702-D@view Ceq Wong in RWAAI Digital Archive
• ELAR archive of Ceq Wong (and Mah Meri) language documentation materials