Be languages

This article is about a pair of languages in China. For the language with ISO code be, see Belarusian language.
Be
Lingao
Native toChina
RegionHainan
Native speakers
600,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3onb
Glottologling1270

Be (native pronunciation: [ʔɑŋ˧ɓe˧]), also known as Ong Be, Bê, or Vo Limgao (Mandarin: 临高话 Lín'gāohuà), is a pair of languages spoken by 600,000 people, 100,000 of them monolingual, on the north-central coast of Hainan Island, including the suburbs of the provincial capital Haikou. The speakers are counted as part of the Han Chinese nationality in census. According to Ethnologue, it is taught in primary schools.[5]

  1. ^ Be at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hansell1988 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Ostapirat, W. (1998). A Mainland Bê Language? / 大陆的Bê语言？. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 26(2), 338-344
  4. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Beic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. ^ "Lingao". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-12-18.