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The Be language, also known as Ong Be or 临高话 Língāohuà, is spoken by around 600,000 people in Lingao county on Hainan Island and in the suburbs of Haikou city. It is a non-Chinese language that belongs to the Tai-Kadai group (状侗语族 Zhuàngdòngyǔzú). Be is a language that is spoken mostly in informal contexts as it is considered inappropriate to speak it at school or work. Nowadays, plenty of native...