Katu, or Low Katu, is a Katuic language of eastern Laos and central Vietnam.
| Katu | |
|---|---|
| Low Katu, West Katu | |
| Native to | Laos, Central Vietnam |
| Ethnicity | Katu |
Native speakers | 23,000 (2005 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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| Dialects |
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| Lao (Laos), Latin (Vietnam) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kuf |
| Glottolog | west2398 |
| ELP | Dakkang |
| Triw[3] | |
In Vietnam, it is spoken in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, including in A Lưới commune. According to the 2009 Vietnamese census, there are 61,588 Katu people.[4]
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | kʰ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Liquid | rhotic | r | ||||
| lateral | l | |||||
| Fricative | (s) | h | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- /ʄ/ can also be heard as a preglottal affricate sound [ʔdʒ] or glide [ʔj].
- /cʰ/ can range to an alveolar fricative [s].[5]
Vowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Close-mid | e eː | ə əː | o oː |
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ʌ ʌː | ɔ ɔː |
| Open | a aː | ɒ ɒː |
- Diphthongs occur as /ia, ɨa, ua/.[6]
References
edit- ^ Katu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft)".
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Triw.
- ^ Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ. Archived 2012-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Hà Nội, 6-2010. Tabl. 5, p. 134-225. Accessed 10/2/2011
- ^ Wallace, Judith M. (1969). "Katu phonemes". Mon-Khmer Studies. 3: 64–73.
- ^ Sidwell (2005), pp. 15-16
Further reading
edit- Nguyễn Hữu Hoành & Nguyễn Văn Lợi. 1998. Tiếng Katu. Hà Nội: Nhà Xuất Bản Khoa Học Xã Hội.
- Sidwell, Paul. (2005). The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon Archived 2020-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics, 58. Muenchen: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895868027
- Theraphan L-Thongkum. 2001. Languages of the Tribes in Xekong Province Southern Laos. The Thailand Research Fund. Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University.