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The Cun language is spoken by eighty thousand people, Forty-five thousand speakers of the Cun language live among the majority of the Chinese people in Dongfang county in China. The Cun people are considered Han Chinese nationality by the Chinese government. Han Chinese migrated to the Hainan Island and met with Li people which is how the language and people came to be. The Hainan Island is located in the South China Sea with its North and West facing Vietnam and the Leizou Peninsula this geographical aspect of the island made intermingling easy. Another name for the language is Gelong. The Cun language is called the village language and the people are called Village people. The Cun language has similarities to the Hlai language and also to Hainan dialect of Chinese. However, many aspects of the Cun language are distinct from both Hlai dialects and the Chinese language. With the language only having eighty thousand speakers, and the integration and popularity of Chinese, the Cun language is endangered.

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