Kucong language
| Kucong | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China, Vietnam |
| Region | Yunnan |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lkc |
| Glottolog |
kuco1235[2] |
Kucong (Khucong, Cosung), or Lahlu, is a Loloish language of Yunnan and Vietnam. In Vietnam, the speakers' autonym is kʰu˧ tsʰɔ˧, and are also known as the La Hủ Na 'Black Lahu' (Edmondson 2002). It is very closely related to Lahu.
Distribution
Vietnam
Kucong, or Black Lahu, is spoken in the following villages of Ca Lăng Commune, Mường Tè District, Lai Châu Province, Vietnam (Edmondson 2002).
- Nậm Phìn
- Nậm Khao
- Nậm Cấu
- Phìn Hồ
- Nậm Xả
The Kucong, or Black Lahu, live adjacently to the La Hủ Sủ (Yellow Lahu) and La Hủ Phung (White Lahu). The Yellow Lahu are distributed in the following locations.
- Pa Vệ Sủ Commune
- Pa Ủ Commune
- Ca Lăng Commune (in Là Pé, Nhu Tè, and Hóm Bô)
The White Lahu live in the following locations, often together with the Yellow Lahu.
- Pa Ủ Commune (in Xà Hồ, Ử Ma, Pha Bu, Pa Ử, and Khồ Ma)
- Ca Lăng Commune (in Hà Xe)
The Kucong and related Lahu groups had originally come from the Jinping County area of southern Yunnan, China (Edmondson 2002).
China
Sun Hongkai (1992) reports 30,000 Kucong speakers in Yunnan, China. Chang Suanzhi (2011:5) recognizes 3 branches of Kucong.
- Black Kucong 黑苦聪 (Lahu Na; autonym Guocuo 锅搓 or Guochou 郭抽) is spoken in Zhenyuan, Mojiang, Jiangcheng, Yuanjiang, and Mengla counties, and in Mường Tè District, Vietnam. Chang Suanzhi (2011) covers the Black Kucong dialect of Shaohuiqing[zhai], Dangduo Village, Yangjie Township, Yuanjiang County (元江县羊街乡党舵村烧灰箐寨).[3]
- Yellow Kucong 黄苦聪 (Lahu Shi) is spoken in Jinping County.
- White Kucong 白苦聪 (Lahu Pu) is spoken in two villages of Zhemi Township 者米乡, Jinping County.
References
- ↑ Kucong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kucong". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=252235
- Chang Junzhi [常俊之] (2011). A reference grammar of Yuanjiang Kucong [元江苦聪话参考语法]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press.
- Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). "The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002), pp. 1-13.
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