Cun language

Cun (Chinese: 村話; meaning "village language/speech") 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. The speakers of this language are being subsumed under "Han" nationalities (same with speakers of Lingao)

Cun
Native toChina
RegionHainan
Native speakers
80,000 (1999)[1]
Kra–Dai
  • Hlai
    • Central
      • North
        • Cun
Language codes
ISO 639-3cuq
Glottologcunn1236[2]

References

  1. Cun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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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