Cua language (Austroasiatic)

Cua
Native to	Vietnam
Native speakers	12,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Bahnaric East Bahnaric Cua; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cua
Glottolog	cuaa1241[2]

The Cua language (also known as Bòng Mieu) is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the Quảng Ngãi and Quảng Nam provinces of Vietnam. Cua dialects include Kol (Kor, Cor, Co, Col, Dot, Yot) and Traw (Tràu, Dong). Maier & Burton (1981) is currently the most extensive Cua dictionary to date.

Classification

Paul Sidwell (2009) considers Cua to constitute an independent primary branch of Bahnaric, which he calls East Bahnaric. Cua has also had extensive contact with North Bahnaric languages. However, Sidwell (2002) had previously classified Cua as a Central Bahnaric language.

Phonology

The phonology of Cua, as cited by Sidwell (based on Maier 1969):^[3]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
	Voiceless	p	t	c	k	ʔ
	Voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
	Implosive	ɓ	ɗ
Nasal	Voiced	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative	Voiceless		s			h
Approximant	Voiced	w	l \| r \| hl	j

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	/i/	/iː/	/ɨ/	/ɨː/	/u/	/uː/
Close-mid	/e/	/eː/			/o/	/oː/
Open-mid	/ɛ/	/ɛː/	/ə/	/əː/	/ɔ/	/ɔː/
Open			/a/	/aː/

References

↑ Cua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Sidwell, Paul. "Cua (Kor) historical phonology and classification". Retrieved 8 April 2018.

Sidwell, Paul. 2009. "How many branches in a tree? Cua and East (North) Bahnaric". In Evans, Bethwyn (ed). Discovering History Through Language: Papers in Honour of Malcolm Ross. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Burton, Eva. 1966. "A brief sketch of Cua clause structure." Van-hóa Nguyêt-san 15: 187-90.
Maier, Jacqueline G. 1966. "Cua phonemes." Van-hóa Nguyêt-san 15: 361-71.
Maier, Jacqueline G. and Eva Burton, compilers. 1966. Cua (Kool) dictionary. [Manuscript] n.p.
Maier, Jacqueline G., Đinh Đổ, and Đinh Mốc. 1974. Bay hok pok Kool Kua = Bài học tiếng Cua = Cua language lessons. Tủ sách ngôn-ngữ dân tộc thiểu số Việt Nam, 10. Saigon: Department of Education. viii, 37 p.
Maier, Jacqueline G. and Eva Burton. 1981. Cua-English-Vietnamese Dictionary: 1981 Pre-publication Manuscript Based on a 1966 Manuscript. (Held by SIL, Dallas)
Smith, Kenneth D. 1973. "Eastern North Bahnaric: Cua and Kotua." Mon–Khmer Studies 4: 113-18.
Sidwell, Paul. 2010. "Cua (Kor) historical phonology and classification" Mon-Khmer Studies 39: 105-122.

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[e18-1] Cua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Sidwell-3] Sidwell, Paul. "Cua (Kor) historical phonology and classification". Retrieved 8 April 2018.