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Tampuan (IPA: [təmpṳan] Khmer: ទំពួន) is the language of Tampuan people indigenous to the mountainous regions of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia. As of the 2008 census there were 31000 speakers which amounts to 21% of the province’s population. It is closely related to Bahnar and Alak the three of which form the Central Bahnaric language grouping within the Mon-Khmer language family according to traditional classification.