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Lavi (autonym: səlwəŋ) is a Mon–Khmer language of the Bahnaric branch spoken in Sekong Province Laos. Chazée (1999:95) estimates the population at 500 while the 1995 Laotian census places the Lavi population at 538.The Lavi language was discovered by Thai linguist Therapan L-Thongkum in the late 1990s. Within the West Bahnaric branch it is the most divergent language (Sidwell 2003).

ISO 639-3 code
none
family
Bahnaric languages, West_Bahnaric_languages
spoken in
Laos

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