Social:Hu language

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Short description: Palaungic language
Hu
Kon Keu
Native toChina
RegionYunnan
Native speakers
1,000 (2006)[1]
Austroasiatic
  • Khasi–Palaungic
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
huo – Hu
kkn – Kon Keu (duplicate code)
Glottologhuuu1240  Hu[2]
konk1268  Kon Keu[3]

Hu (Chinese: 户语; pinyin: Hùyǔ), 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.[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 xuʔ55, and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as xɔn55 kɤt35, meaning 'surviving souls'.[6] They are also known locally as the Kunge people (昆格人) or Kongge people (控格人).[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Li (2006).
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Hu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/huuu1240. 
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kon Keu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/konk1268. 
  4. Hu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  5. "Jǐnghóng Shì Měngyǎng Zhèn Kūngé Cūnwěihuì Nàhuípà" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=201692. 
  6. Yan & Zhou (2012), p. 152.

Further reading

  • Jiang, Guangyou 蒋光友; Shi, Jian 时建 (2016) (in zh). Kūngéyǔ cānkǎo yǔfǎ. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5161-8444-8. 
  • Li, Jinfang 李锦芳 (2006) (in zh). Xīnán dìqū bīnwēi yǔyán diàochá yánjiū. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe. 
  • Svantesson, Jan-Olof (1991). "Hu – a Language with Unorthodox Tonogenesis". in Davidson, Jeremy H.C.S. (in en). Austroasiatic Languages: Essays in Honour of H. L. Shorto. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. pp. 67–80. http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/svantesson1991hu.pdf. 
  • Yan, Qixiang 颜其香; Zhou, Zhizhi 周植志 (2012). Zhōngguó Mèng-Gāomián yǔzú yǔyán yǔ Nányǎ yǔxì. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5097-2860-4. 

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