Native to China Native speakers 1,000 (2006) | Region Yunnan | |
Language family Austroasiatic
Palaungic
Angkuic
Hu ISO 639-3 Either:
huo – Hu
kkn – Kon Keu (duplicate code) Glottolog huuu1240 (Hu)
konk1268 (Kon Keu) | ||
Hu (Chinese: 户语) 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.
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).
Hu speakers call themselves the xuʔ˥, and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as xɔn55 kɤt35, meaning 'surviving soul' (Yan & Zhou 2012:152). They are also known locally as the Kunge people 昆格人 or Kongge people 控格人 (Li 2006).
References
Hu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA