Sapuan language

Sapuan
Səpuar
Native to	Laos
Native speakers	480 (1999) to 1,000 (2003)
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric West Oi–The Sapuan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	spu
Glottolog	sapu1248

Sapuan (autonym: səpuar) is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the single village of Ban Sapuan, located approximately 40 km north of Attapeu. Jacq and Sidwell (1999) provide a short grammar. Sidwell (2003) reports a population of just under 1,000. Chazée (1999:93) gives a lower estimate of 480.

• Sidwell, Paul (2003). A Handbook of comparative Bahnaric, Vol. 1: West Bahnaric Archived 2021-06-11 at the Wayback Machine. Pacific Linguistics, 551. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
• Jacq, Pascale and Paul Sidwell (1999). "Sapuan (Səpuar)." Lincom Europa. München.
• http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
• http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9041-C@view Sapuar in RWAAI Digital Archive