Hu language

This article is about the Angkuic minority language spoken in Yunnan. For the Wu language spoken in Shanghai also known as Hùyǔ (沪语), see Shanghainese.

Hu (Chinese: 户语; pinyin: Hùyǔ), 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.^[2]

Hu
Kon Keu
Native to	China
Region	Yunnan
Native speakers	1,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Khasi–Palaungic Palaungic Angkuic Hu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: huo – Hu kkn – Kon Keu (duplicate code)
Glottolog	huuu1240  Hu konk1268  Kon Keu
ELP	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).^[3]

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'.^[4] They are also known locally as the Kunge people (昆格人) or Kongge people (控格人).^[1]