Hu language explained
| Hu |
| Also Known As: | Kon Keu |
| Region: | Yunnan |
| States: | China |
| Speakers: | 1,000 |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Familycolor: | Austro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Khasi–Palaungic |
| Fam3: | Palaungic |
| Fam4: | Angkuic |
| Lc1: | huo |
| Ld1: | Hu |
| Lc2: | kkn |
| Ld2: | Kon Keu (duplicate code) |
| Glotto: | huuu1240 |
| Glottoname: | Hu |
| Glotto2: | konk1268 |
| Glottoname2: | Kon Keu |
Hu, also Angku or Kon Keu, is a Palaungic language of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Its speakers are an unclassified ethnic minority; the Chinese government counts the Angku as members of the Bulang nationality, but the Angku language is not intelligible with Bulang.
Distribution
According to Li (2006:340), there are fewer than 1,000 speakers living on the slopes of the "Kongge" Mountain ("控格山") in Na Huipa village (纳回帕村), Mengyang township (勐养镇), Jinghong (景洪市, a county-level city).[1]
Hu speakers call themselves the pronounced as /xuʔ55/, and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as pronounced as /xɔn55 kɤt35/, meaning 'surviving souls'. They are also known locally as the Kunge people (昆格人) or Kongge people (控格人).
Further reading
- Book: Jiang, Guangyou 蒋光友 . Kūngéyǔ cānkǎo yǔfǎ . Shi . Jian 时建 . 2016 . Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe . 978-7-5161-8444-8 . Beijing . zh . zh:昆格语参考语法 . A Reference Grammar of Kunge [Hu].
- Book: Li, Jinfang 李锦芳 . Xīnán dìqū bīnwēi yǔyán diàochá yánjiū . 2006 . Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe . Beijing . zh . zh:西南地区濒危语言调查研究 . Studies on Endangered Languages in the Southwest China.
- Book: Svantesson, Jan-Olof . Austroasiatic Languages: Essays in Honour of H. L. Shorto . 1991 . School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . Davidson . Jeremy H.C.S. . London . 67–80 . en . Hu – a Language with Unorthodox Tonogenesis.
- Book: Yan, Qixiang 颜其香 . Zhōngguó Mèng-Gāomián yǔzú yǔyán yǔ Nányǎ yǔxì . Zhou . Zhizhi 周植志 . 2012 . Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe . 978-7-5097-2860-4 . Beijing . zh:中国孟高棉语族语言与南亚语系 . Mon-Khmer Languages of China and the Austroasiatic Family.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Jǐnghóng Shì Měngyǎng Zhèn Kūngé Cūnwěihuì Nàhuípà . zh:景洪市勐养镇昆格村委会纳回帕 . Nahuipa, Kunge Village Committee, Mengyang Town, Jinghong City . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160202035959/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=201692 . 2016-02-02 . 2016-01-30 . ynszxc.gov.cn . zh.
