Ong be (Lingaonese), fusing Thai, Vietnamese, and vahcuengh, bears the time-honored history and charismatic culture of the people living on the splendid Northwestern coast of Hainan island.
About Ong Be
Classification of UNESCO: Severely Endangered (SE)*
ISO 639-3 Code by SIL: onb
Status: Active
Language Population: Approx. 600,000
Language family: Kra-Dai
Geographical Scope: Lingao County & adjacent regions
Glottolog Rec.: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ling1262
*The language is spoken by grandparents and older generations. While the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves.
Dedicated to the Preservation of the vanishing language of Lingao
