Hu language


Hu, 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.

Distribution

According to Li, there are fewer than 1,000 speakers living on the slopes of the "Kongge" Mountain in Na Huipa village 纳回帕村, Mengyang township 勐养镇, Jinghong 景洪市.
Hu speakers call themselves the ', and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people", as well as ', meaning 'surviving souls'. They are also known locally as the Kunge people 昆格人 or Kongge people 控格人.