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 Angkuic languages is not intelligible with Bulang.
According to Li (2006:340), there are fewer than 1,000 speakers living on the slopes of the "Kongge" Mountain ("æ§格山") in Na Huipa village (纳åÂÂå¸ÂæÂÂ), Mengyang township (Ã¥ÂÂå »éÂÂ), Jinghong (æ¯洪å¸Â, a county-level city).
Hu speakers call themselves the ', and the local Dai peoples call them the "black people" (é»Â人), as well as ', meaning 'surviving souls'. They are also known locally as the Kunge people (æÂÂ格人) or Kongge people (æ§格人).
The Hu data presented in the studies was collected from the Xiao MÃÂngyÃÂng area in JÃÂnghóng County, Yunnan, China.
Hu phonological word strongly tends to be monosyllabic. Disyllabic words are all iambic. There is one trisyllabic form in the data: ÃÂapalàw "fish". Thus, the maximal structure in Hu is (CâÂÂ(a(CâÂÂ))).ÃÂCáµ¢(CâÂÂ)V(C<sub>f</sub>)áµÂ.
Hu has two tones: high and low. The tonal system reflects historical vowel length contrasts (low < long; high < short) that are no longer phonemic today, with residual length distinctions still perceptible.
Subsequent secondary changes and mergers have introduced distributional asymmetries: syllables with final glottal stops consistently bear high tone; the high vowels /i, u/ take high tone in closed syllables, but low tone only in open syllables and before /-ÃÂ/.
Hu complex onsets found in the files are /pàpðàpðl kàkl à Âkh à ÂàsÃÂ/.
Comparison of Hu numerals with proto-Palaungic reconstructions by Sidwell (2015). Numbers larger than five have been replaced by Tai loans.