Katu, or Low Katu, is a

Katuic language The fifteen Katuic languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 1.5 million people in Southeast Asia. People who speak Katuic languages are called the Katuic peoples. Paul Sidwell is the leading specialist on the Katuic ...

of eastern

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and

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. In

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, it is spoken in

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city, including in A Lưới

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. According to the 2009

ese

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, there are 61,588

Katu people The Katuic people (also Co Tu, Ca Tang; ; Katu language, Katu: ) are an ethnic group of about 102,551 who live in eastern Laos and central Vietnam. Numbered among the Katuic peoples, they speak a Mon-Khmer languages, Mon-Khmer language. Katuic la ...

. Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ.
Hà Nội, 6-2010. Tabl. 5, p. 134-225. Accessed 10/2/2011

Phonology

Consonants

* can also be heard as a preglottal affricate sound or glide . * can range to an alveolar fricative .

Vowels

* Diphthongs occur as .Sidwell (2005), pp. 15-16

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

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