Hu language
{{Short description|Palaungic language}}
{{About|the Angkuic minority language spoken in Yunnan|the Wu language spoken in Shanghai also known as Hùyǔ (沪语)|Shanghainese}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Hu
|altname=Kon Keu
|nativename=
|region=Yunnan
|states=China
|speakers=1,000
|date=2006
|ref={{sfnp|Li|2006}}
|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic
|fam2=Khasi–Palaungic
|fam3=Palaungic
|fam4=Angkuic
|nation=
|lc1=huo
|ld1=Hu
|lc2=kkn
|ld2=Kon Keu (duplicate code)
|glotto=huuu1240
|glottoname=Hu
|glotto2=konk1268
|glottoname2=Kon Keu
}}
Hu ({{zh||p=Hùyǔ|s=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.{{e18|huo|Hu}}
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).{{Cite web |title=Jǐnghóng Shì Měngyǎng Zhèn Kūngé Cūnwěihuì Nàhuípà |script-title=zh:景洪市勐养镇昆格村委会纳回帕 |trans-title=Nahuipa, Kunge Village Committee, Mengyang Town, Jinghong City |url=http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=201692 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202035959/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=201692 |archive-date=2016-02-02 |access-date=2016-01-30 |website=ynszxc.gov.cn |language=zh}}
Hu speakers call themselves the {{IPA|xuʔ55}}, and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as {{IPA|xɔn55 kɤt35}}, meaning 'surviving souls'.{{sfnp|Yan|Zhou|2012|p=152}} They are also known locally as the Kunge people (昆格人) or Kongge people (控格人).{{sfnp|Li|2006}}
References
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book |last=Jiang |first=Guangyou 蒋光友 |title=Kūngéyǔ cānkǎo yǔfǎ |last2=Shi |first2=Jian 时建 |date=2016 |publisher=Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe |isbn=978-7-5161-8444-8 |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:昆格语参考语法 |trans-title=A Reference Grammar of Kunge [Hu]}}
- {{Cite book |last=Li |first=Jinfang 李锦芳 |title=Xīnán dìqū bīnwēi yǔyán diàochá yánjiū |date=2006 |publisher=Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:西南地区濒危语言调查研究 |trans-title=Studies on Endangered Languages in the Southwest China}}
- {{Cite book |last=Svantesson |first=Jan-Olof |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/svantesson1991hu.pdf |title=Austroasiatic Languages: Essays in Honour of H. L. Shorto |date=1991 |publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |editor-last=Davidson |editor-first=Jeremy H.C.S. |location=London |pages=67–80 |language=en |chapter=Hu – a Language with Unorthodox Tonogenesis}}
- {{Cite book |last=Yan |first=Qixiang 颜其香 |title=Zhōngguó Mèng-Gāomián yǔzú yǔyán yǔ Nányǎ yǔxì |last2=Zhou |first2=Zhizhi 周植志 |date=2012 |publisher=Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe |isbn=978-7-5097-2860-4 |location=Beijing |script-title=zh:中国孟高棉语族语言与南亚语系 |trans-title=Mon-Khmer Languages of China and the Austroasiatic Family}}
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External links
- [http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)]
- [http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6715-0@view Hu in RWAAI Digital Archive]
- Hu recordings in Kaipuleohone include a word list, sentence elicitation and interview.
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