Cua language (Austroasiatic)

Cua
Native to Vietnam
Native speakers
12,000 (2007)[1]
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cua
Glottolog cuaa1241[2]

The Cua language (also known as Bòng Mieu) is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the Quảng Ngãi and Quảng Nam provinces of Vietnam. Cua dialects include Kol (Kor, Cor, Co, Col, Dot, Yot) and Traw (Tràu, Dong). Maier & Burton (1981) is currently the most extensive Cua dictionary to date.

Classification

Paul Sidwell (2009) considers Cua to constitute an independent primary branch of Bahnaric, which he calls East Bahnaric. Cua has also had extensive contact with North Bahnaric languages. However, Sidwell (2002) had previously classified Cua as a Central Bahnaric language.

References

  1. Cua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cua". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Further reading

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