Hu language

Hu (Chinese: 户语), 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.[3]

Hu
Kon Keu
Native toChina
RegionYunnan
Native speakers
1,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
huo – Hu
kkn – Kon Keu (duplicate code)
Glottologhuuu1240  Hu
konk1268  Kon Keu
ELPHu[2]

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).[4]

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' (Yan & Zhou 2012:152).[5] 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. Endangered Languages Project data for Hu.
  3. Hu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  4. "景洪市勐养镇昆格村委会纳回帕". Ynszxc.gov.cn. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  5. 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].

Further reading
  • Jiang, Guangyou 蒋光友 & Shi, Jian 时建. 2016. A reference grammar of Kunge [Hu] / Kungeyu cankao yufa 昆格语参考语法. Beijing: China Social Science Press 中国社会科学出版社. ISBN 9787516184448
  • Li Jinfang [李锦芳]. 2006. Studies on endangered languages in the Southwest China [西南地区濒危语言调查研究]. Beijing: Minzu University [中央民族大学出版社].
  • Svantesson, Jan-Olof. 1991. "Hu - a Language with Unorthodox Tonogenesis." In Austroasiatic Languages, Essays in honour of H. L. Shorto, edited by Jeremy H.C.S. Davidson. 67-80. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.


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