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Preferred term

onbLingao  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ong Be , also known as Bê, or Vo Limgao (臨高, Lin'gao) in Chinese, is a language 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 language is taught in primary schools and broadcast on the radio. Ong Be is a Tai–Kadai language, but it has no close relatives and its relationship within that family has not been determined.

Entry terms

  • Ong Be language

ISO 639-3 code

  • onb

Notation

  • onb

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/onb

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