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|nativename=''Djarai, Jarai, Jorai, Jörai, Jơrai''
|nativename=''Djarai, Jarai, Jorai, Jörai, Jơrai''
|familycolor=Isolate
|familycolor=Isolate
|states=[[Vietnam]], [[Cambodia]], [[United States of America|United States]] (esp. [[North Carolina]])
|states=[[Vietnam]], [[Cambodia]], [[United States of America|United States]] (esp. [[North Carolina (U.S. state)]])
|speakers=more than 300 thousand [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jra]
|speakers=more than 300 thousand [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jra]
|fam1=[[Chamic languages|Chamic]]
|fam1=[[Chamic languages|Chamic]]

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Jarai
Djarai, Jarai, Jorai, Jörai, Jơrai
Spoken in Vietnam, Cambodia, United States (esp. North Carolina (U.S. state))
Total speakers more than 300 thousand [1]
Language family Chamic
Language codes
ISO 639-1 none
ISO 639-2 none
ISO 639-3 jra
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

Jarai, a minority language of Southeast Asia, is the mother tongue of over 300,000 people, most of them living in the highlands of Vietnam and Cambodia. Jarai is a member of the Chamic language family, from the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian. The name Jarai designates both the Jarai ethnic group and the language.

Jarai is written with a Roman alphabet resembling that used for Vietnamese. However, unlike Vietnamese, Jarai is not a tone language, so very few diacritics are needed.