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Ong Be (native pronunciation: [ʔǎŋɓě]) also known as Bê or Vo Limgao (臨高 Lin’gao) in Chinese is a language spoken by 600000 people 100000 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.