Katu language

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Katu language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Katu people primarily in Laos and central Vietnam.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Katu language canonical 5

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Mon-Khmer language
basicWordOrder SVO
classificationAuthority Ethnologue
Glottolog
closelyRelatedTo Pacoh language
Ta Oi language
country Laos
surface form: Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Viet Nam
surface form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Katu people
glottologCode katu1271
hasConsonantInventoryType moderately large consonant inventory
hasDialect Eastern Katu
Northern Katu
Western Katu
hasEthnologueEntry Katu
hasLinguisticFeature rich system of aspectual particles
serial verb constructions
hasLoanwordsFrom Khmer
surface form: Khmer language

Lao
surface form: Lao language

Vietnamese
surface form: Vietnamese language
hasPhonologicalFeature phonemic vowel length
register contrast in phonation
hasVowelInventoryType moderate vowel inventory
iso639-3Code kuf
languageFamily Austroasiatic
surface form: Austroasiatic languages
morphologicalType analytic
neighboringLanguage Bru language
Pacoh language
Ta Oi language
region Central Vietnam
southern Laos
surface form: Southern Laos
spokenBy Katu people
spokenIn Laos
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
subfamily Katuic languages
usedFor daily communication within Katu communities
usedIn traditional oral literature of the Katu people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mon-Khmer hasLanguage Katu language
Austroasiatic hasLanguage Katu language
Mon Khmer includesLanguage Katu language
Katuic branch hasLanguage Katu language
Katuic languages hasMember Katu language