Hu language

Hu
Kon Keu
Angku
Native to China
Region Yunnan
Native speakers
1,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
huo  Hu
kkn  Kon Keu (duplicate code)
Glottolog huuu1240  (Hu)[2]
konk1268  (Kon Keu)[3]

Hu (Chinese: 户语) 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.[4]

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).[5]

Hu speakers call themselves the xuʔ˥, and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as xɔn55 kɤt35, meaning 'surviving soul' (Yan & Zhou 2012:152).[6] They are also known locally as the Kunge people 昆格人 or Kongge people 控格人 (Li 2006).

References

  1. Li Jinfang (2006)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kon Keu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Hu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  5. "景洪市勐养镇昆格村委会纳回帕". Ynszxc.gov.cn. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  6. Yan Qixiang [颜其香] & Zhou Zhizhi [周植志] (2012). Mon-Khmer languages of China and the Austroasiatic family [中国孟高棉语族语言与南亚语系]. Beijing: Social Sciences Academy Press [社会科学文献出版社].

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