Maleng (Mã Liềng);Kha Pakatan;Malang;Arem/Harème (Rivière 1902).[4] Sub-varieties includeKha Muong Ben andKha Bo (Fraisse 1950).[5]
Ma Lieng, also known asPa Leng (Đặng Nghiêm Vạn et al. 1986)[6]
Kha Phong (formerly an exonym, but now also used as an autonym);Maleng Kari;Maleng Bro. Also known asKha Nam Om (Fraisse 1949).[7] The Kha Phong live in 2 to 3 villages in Laos, and in one village inHà Tĩnh province, Vietnam. Strongly influenced by Lao. Maleng Bro was documented byMichel Ferlus in 1992 (see Ferlus 1997[8]), and also by the 2012-2013 Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition.
^abcBabaev, Kirill; Samarina, Irina (2021). Sidwell, Paul (ed.).A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam. Brill. p. 12.ISBN978-9-00446-108-6.