Tsat language

Tsat language

language
name=Tsat
familycolor=Austronesian
states=Hainan Island
region=Southeast Asia
speakers=3,500
rank=?
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Malayic
fam4=Aceh-Chamic
fam5=Chamic
fam6=North Chamic
nation=none
iso2=map
iso3=huq

Tsat (also known as Utsat, Utset, Huihui, Hui, or Hainan Cham) is a language spoken on Hainan Island in China by the Utsuls. Tsat is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group within the Austronesian language family, and is related to the Cham languages, originally from the coast of present-day Vietnam.

Unusually for a Malayo-Polynesian language, Tsat has developed into a solidly tonal language, probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai/Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.

External links

* cite web
url = http://www.public.asu.edu/~aperez7/TONALITY.html
title = Tonality in Phan Rang Cham and Tsat
accessdate = 2006-12-22
last = Pérez Pereiro
first = Alberto
archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060320070439/http://www.public.asu.edu/~aperez7/TONALITY.html
archivedate = 2006-03-20
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=huq Ethnologue entry for Tsat]


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