Mlabri

Facts

  • Language: Mlabri
  • Alternate names: Mlabri (Minor), Mla, Mla Bri, Mla-Bri, Mabri, Mrabri, Yumbri, Ma Ku, Yellow Leaf, Phi Thong Luang ("Spirits of yellow leaves"), มละบริ, เผ่าตองหลือง, ผีตองหลือง
  • Language code: mra
  • Language family: Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Northern Mon-Khmer, Khmuic, Mlabri (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: <400
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Thai script.

More information:

    Mlabri are different from the Kha Tong Luang (Phi Tong Luang, Yellow Leaf) in Laos, who are Western Viet-Muong (Wurm and Hattori 1981). Sometimes employed by the Hmong. Some nomadic. Traditional religion.

    "Spirits of the yellow leaves" is derogatory. The dialectal varieties are not mutually intelligible.