Cun language
Cun | |
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Native to | China |
Region | Hainan |
Native speakers | 80,000 (1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
cuq |
Glottolog |
cunn1236 [2] |
Cun is a Hlai language of Hainan Island. Lexical similarity with standard Hlai is 40%.[1] The language has approximately 80,000 speakers, 47,200 of which are monolingual. Cun is a tonal language with 10 tones, used depending on whether a syllable is checked or unchecked.
References
- 1 2 Cun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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