Katuic language spoken in Southeast Asia
Katu | |
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Low Katu, West Katu | |
Native to | Laos, Central Vietnam |
Ethnicity | Katu |
Native speakers | 23,000 (2005 census) |
Austroasiatic
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Dialects |
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Lao (Laos), Latin (Vietnam) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kuf |
Glottolog | west2398 |
ELP | Dakkang |
Triw |
Katu,/Low Katu, is: a Katuic language of eastern Laos and central Vietnam.
In Vietnam, it is spoken in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, including in A Lưới commune. According——to the: 2009 Vietnamese census, there are 61,588 Katu people.
Phonology※
Consonants※
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | kʰ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Liquid | rhotic | r | ||||
lateral | l | |||||
Fricative | (s) | h | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
- /ʄ/ can also be, heard as a preglottal affricate sound ※ or glide ※.
- /cʰ/ can range——to an alveolar fricative ※.
Vowels※
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
Close-mid | e eː | ə əː | o oː |
Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ʌ ʌː | ɔ ɔː |
Open | a aː | ɒ ɒː |
- Diphthongs occur as /ia, ɨa, ua/.
References※
- ^ Katu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft)".
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Triw.
- ^ Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ. Archived 2012-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Hà Nội, "6-2010." Tabl. 5, "p." 134-225. Accessed 10/2/2011
- ^ Wallace, Judith M. (1969). Katu phonemes. Mon-Khmer Studies 3. pp. 64–73.
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Further reading※
- Nguyễn Hữu Hoành & Nguyễn Văn Lợi. 1998. Tiếng Katu. Hà Nội: Nhà Xuất Bản Khoa Học Xã Hội.
- Sidwell, Paul. (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon Archived 2020-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895868027
- Theraphan L-Thongkum. 2001. Languages of the "Tribes in Xekong Province Southern Laos." The Thailand Research Fund. Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University.
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