Hu language

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 ', and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (黑人), as well as ', meaning 'surviving souls'. They are also known locally as the Kunge people (昆格人) or Kongge people (控格人). ==Phonology==

The Hu data presented in the studies was collected from the Xiao Mĕngyăng area in Jǐnghóng County, Yunnan, China. Word structure Hu phonological word strongly tends to be monosyllabic. Disyllabic words are all iambic. There is one trisyllabic form in the data: ʔapalàw "fish". Thus, the maximal structure in Hu is (C1(a(C2))).ˈCi(Cm)V(Cf)T. Suprasegmentals (tones) Hu has two tones: high and low. The tonal system reflects historical vowel length contrasts (low < long; high < short) that are no longer phonemic today, with residual length distinctions still perceptible. Subsequent secondary changes and mergers have introduced distributional asymmetries: syllables with final glottal stops consistently bear high tone; the high vowels /i, u/ take high tone in closed syllables, but low tone only in open syllables and before /-ʁ/. Consonants Initials Codas Complex onsets Hu complex onsets found in the files are /pʁ pʰʁ pʰl kʁ kl ŋkh ŋʁ sʁ/. Vowels ==Lexicon==

Pronouns Numerals Comparison of Hu numerals with proto-Palaungic reconstructions by Sidwell (2015). Numbers larger than five have been replaced by Tai loans. Body parts Animals ==References==