Arem

"The Arem people are located in Vietnam’s Quảng Bình province, Bố-trạch district, Tân-trạch commune, Cà Ròong hamlet. Around 1960, there were 53 people, 30 men and 23 women (Vương Hoàng Tuyên 1963: 69). Forty years later, there were 102 people (Trần Trí Dõi 1999: 110). In the past, Arem lived in rock shelters or makeshift huts. They exchanged products from hunting and gathering with the neighboring populations, Vietnamese, Bru khùa or Lao. The need to find marital partners outside the group has the consequence that only a minority of Arem, about a quarter, regularly speak their language. The Arem language is in great danger of extinction.

The term Arem (Vietnamese spelling of areːm) seems to be an exonym. Those concerned prefer to be named cmbrau [cmrawˀ]."

(excerpted from: Ferlus, Michel. 2014. Arem, a Vietic language. Mon-Khmer Studies 43. 1–15.)

The archived documents: vocabulary

The recordings made available here contain lexical data. They are based on Michel Ferlus's vocabulary list.

About the transcription

The transcription is IPA-based. See Ferlus (2014) for a presentation of the system.

References

The EFEO-CNRS-SOAS Word List for Linguistic Fieldwork in Southeast Asia, used to elicit the vocabulary, is available here.

About the Arem language, see Ferlus (2014) and references therein:

Ferlus, Michel. 2014. Arem, a Vietic language. Mon-Khmer Studies 43. 1–15.

Classification of the Vietic languages (a.k.a. Viet-Muong, Việt-Chứt) after Ferlus 1996:

1. Maleng

2. Arem (this page)

3. Chứt

4. Aheu

5. Hung

6. Thổ

7. Mường

8. Vietnamese

These materials were digitized by the International Research Institute MICA (HUST – CNRS/UMI-2954 – Grenoble INP) in partnership with CNRS-LACITO, as part of the DO-RE-MI-FA project (Sept. 2014-Feb. 2016), funded by the Digital Scientific Library, a programme of the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research.

Last updated 2016.

Contact: Alexis Michaud

Resources

DOI	Duration	Title	Researcher(s)	Speaker(s)
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0001663	00:10:16	Narrative in Arem	Ferlus, Michel	Đinh Ốc — Đinh Châu — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0001664	00:47:30	Vocabulary list for Quang Binh dialect of the Arem language as spoken in the district of Bo Trach, part 1 of 4	Ferlus, Michel	Đinh Ốc — Đinh Châu — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0001666	00:47:30	Vocabulary list for Quang Binh dialect of the Arem language as spoken in the district of Bo Trach, part 2 of 4	Ferlus, Michel	Đinh Ốc — Đinh Châu — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0001668	00:37:11	Vocabulary list for Quang Binh dialect of the Arem language as spoken in the district of Bo Trach, part 3 of 4	Ferlus, Michel	Đinh Ốc — Đinh Châu — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0001670	00:37:11	Vocabulary list for Quang Binh dialect of the Arem language as spoken in the district of Bo Trach, part 4 of 4	Ferlus, Michel	Đinh Ốc — Đinh Châu — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau — Dinh, Oc — Dinh, Chau
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0007484	00:16:16	List of Arem words read by a speaker born in Tân Trạch in 1981	Tạ Thành Tấn	F01
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0007486	00:17:11	List of Arem words read by a speaker born in Tân Trạch in 1966	Tạ Thành Tấn	F02
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0007488	00:23:11	List of Arem words read by a speaker born in Thượng Trạch in 1956	Tạ Thành Tấn	M01
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0007490	00:26:28	List of Arem words read by a speaker born in Thượng Trạch in 1944	Tạ Thành Tấn	M02
https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0007492	00:18:19	List of Arem words read by a speaker born in Thượng Trạch in 1959	Tạ Thành Tấn	M03