Cun language

Cun (Chinese: 村話; meaning "village language/speech") is a Hlai language of Hainan Island. Lexical similarity with standard Hlai is 40%.[1] The language has approximately 80,000 speakers, 47,200 of which are monolingual. Cun is a tonal language with 10 tones, used depending on whether a syllable is checked or unchecked. The speakers of this language are classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Han (same with speakers of Lingao).

Cun
Native toChina
RegionHainan
Native speakers
80,000 (1999)[1]
Kra–Dai
  • Hlai
    • Central
      • North
        • Cun
Dialects
  • Nadou
Language codes
ISO 639-3cuq
Glottologcunn1236
ELPNadouhua[2]

References
  1. Cun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Nadouhua.
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