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Katu, or Low Katu, is a Katuic language of eastern Laos and central Vietnam.

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.

Phonology

Consonants

• /ʄ/ can also be heard as a preglottal affricate sound or glide .
• /cʰ/ can range to an alveolar fricative .

Vowels

• Diphthongs occur as /ia, ɨa, ua/.

References

1. Katu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft)".
3. Endangered Languages Project data for Triw.
4. 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
5. Wallace, Judith M. (1969). "Katu phonemes". Mon-Khmer Studies. 3: 64–73.
6. Sidwell (2005), pp. 15-16

Further reading

• 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.

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