Skip to content

Where is Shwe Palaung spoken?

Shwe Palaung is an Austroasiatic language, spoken in China and Myanmar. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

Tap or scroll to load the interactive map

Search for a language or a town

Show language family

The filter only changes what is drawn. Tap the map to list every language at a spot, whichever family is shown. You can also pick any family from its own page.

Key

Language families (largest ten)

Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Nuclear Trans New Guinea
Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

Where Shwe Palaung is spoken

Shwe Palaung is spoken in 2 countries: China and Myanmar.

Country
China
Myanmar

Shwe Palaung has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Shwe Palaung?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Shwe Palaung sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Shwe Palaung as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

Austroasiatic
Khasi-Palaung
Palaungic
West Palaungic
Palaung
Shwe Palaung

Related languages

Other languages in the Palaung group:

Ruching Palaung

More about Shwe Palaung

Codes: ISO 639-3 pll, Glottolog shwe1236. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Shwe Palaung

Where is Shwe Palaung spoken?

Shwe Palaung is spoken in China and Myanmar. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Shwe Palaung in?

Glottolog places Shwe Palaung in the Austroasiatic family, in the branch Khasi-Palaung, Palaungic, West Palaungic and Palaung.