Maang Language
Maang (; autonym: ' or ') or Mo'ang (; autonym: ') is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. The Maang are also locally referred to as the ''Gāokùjiǎo Yí'' (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1). Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese. Maang has many Zhuang (Central Tai) loanwords (Wang 2018). Distribution Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages. *Banlun township 板仑乡, Funing County, Yunnan **Longyang 龙洋 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents) **Longmai 龙迈 **Mula 木腊 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents) **Gongjinwei 公金渭 **Kela 克拉 *Mugan 木甘, Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents) *Muxiongping village 木兄坪村, Muyang town 木央镇 **Zhilun 直伦 (Maang and Miao residents) **Upper Muyang 上木羊 (Maang and Miao residents) **Lower Muyang 下木 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Funing County, Yunnan
Funing County (; Zhuang language: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the east of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, east and southeast, and Vietnam's Hà Giang Province to the south. Administrative divisions In the present, Funing County has 6 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;6 towns ;6 townships ;1 ethnic township * Dongbo Yao () Ethnic groups Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the ''Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer'' (1998). *Han Chinese (84,337 people) *Zhuang people (199,784 people, including the Buyang) ** Min ZhuangJohnson, Eric C. 2011.A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2011-005: 170. ** Dai Zhuang (" ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yi People
The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ... in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Numbering nine million people, they are the seventh largest of the 55 Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live primarily in rural areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, usually in mountainous regions. The Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is home to the largest population of Yi people within mainland China, with two million Yi people in the region. For other countries, as of 1999, there were 3,300 Mantsi language, Mantsi-speaking Lô Lô people living in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lolo-Burmese Languages
The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma and Southern China form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Names Until ca. 1950, the endonym ''Lolo'' was written with derogatory characters in Chinese, and for this reason has sometimes been avoided. Shafer (1966–1974) used the term "Burmic" for the Lolo-Burmese languages. The Chinese term is ''Mian–Yi'', after the Chinese name for Burmese and one of several words for Tai, reassigned to replace ''Lolo'' by the Chinese government after 1950. Possible languages The position of Naxi (Moso) within the family is unclear, and it is often left as a third branch besides Loloish and Burmish. Lama (2012) considers it to be a branch of Loloish, while Guillaume Jacques has suggested that it is a Qiangic language. The Pyu language that preceded Burmese in Burma is sometimes linked to the Lolo-Burmese family, but there is no good evidence for any particular classification, and it is best left unclassified withi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mondzish Languages
Mondzish (Mangish) is a small group of languages that constitute the most divergent branch of the Lolo–Burmese languages in the classification of Lama (2012). The Mondzish languages are spoken in Funing, Guangnan, Malipo, and Napo counties of China and Hà Giang and Cao Bang provinces of northern Vietnam. The autonyms of Mondzishspeaking peoples often begins with *man-. Lama (2012) considers *man- to be cognate with Mán (蛮), which is an ancient Chinese exonym for non-Chinese peoples to the south. Mondzish languages are spoken in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China and across the border in Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. According to Hsiu (2014), Kathu is related. Classification Hsiu (2014:73) classifies the Mondzish languages as follows. Additional languages from Hsiu (2017) are also included. *Kathu (Thou) *''Nuclear Mondzish'' (''Nuclear Mangish'') ** Muangphe **Mango, Manga ** Maang (also known as Mo'ang, Meang) ** Mondzi or Mantsi (also known as Lô Lô by the Vietnamese) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wenshan Zhuang And Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China and the easternmost prefecture-level division of the province. It borders Baise, Guangxi to the east, Vietnam's Hà Giang Province to the south for , Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture to the west and Qujing to the north. Subdivisions Ethnic groups Wenshan is highly diverse. According to a local saying, "Han and Hui live by the market, Zhuang and Dai live by the water, Miao and Yi live on the mountains, and Yao live among the bamboos." () Some of Wenshan's ethnic groups include: *Han Chinese *Tai peoples ** Zhuang (3 branches according to Kaup (2000); 4 branches according to Johnson (2011)Johnson, Eric C. 2011.A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2011-005: 170. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Northern Vietnam
Northern Vietnam ( vi, Bắc Bộ) is one of three geographical regions within Vietnam. It consists of three administrative regions: the Northwest (Vùng Tây Bắc), the Northeast (Vùng Đông Bắc), and the Red River Delta (Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng). It has a total area of about 109,942.9 km2. ''Tonkin'' is a historical exonym for this region plus the Thanh-Nghệ region. Of the three geographical regions, the oldest is Northern Vietnam, where the Vietnamese culture originated over 2,000 years ago in the Red River Delta, though Vietnamese people eventually spread south into the Mekong Delta. Administration Northern Vietnam includes three administrative regions, which in turn comprises 25 First Tier units. Municipality (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) Of all 25 First Tier units, two are municipalities and 23 are provinces. See also * Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam * Tonkin Tonkin, also spelled ''Tongkin'', ''Tonquin'' or ''Tongking'', is an ex ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nong Zhuang Language
Nong Zhuang () is a Tai language spoken mainly in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China. In Wenshan Prefecture, it is spoken in Yanshan, Guangnan, Wenshan, Maguan, Funing, Xichou, and Malipo counties, and also in Honghe Prefecture and Vietnam. The heaviest concentrations relative to other Zhuang groups are in Xichou (96% of the total Zhuang population) and Malipo (90% of the total Zhuang population) counties (Johnson 2011a:43). Names Below are various names (both autonyms and exonyms) for the Nong Zhuang people (Johnson 2011a:43). *Pu Nong (濮侬) * *Nongzu (侬族) or Nongren (侬人) *Long (龙) *Bu Tei *Bendi ( 'indigenous') Subdivisions Johnson (2011a) gives the following subdivisions for the Nong Zhuang peoples. *Dao Nong (道侬), or Nong Dau ('): Guangnan County *Niang Nong (仰侬), or Nong Nyeng ('); also called the "Green Nong" (青侬): along the Chouyang River (畴阳河) in Xichou and Malipo counties. *Du Nong (赌侬), or Nong Du ('): along the Duzhou River (赌咒河 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Central Tai Languages
The Central Tai languages include southern dialects of Zhuang, and various Nung and Tày dialects of northern Vietnam. Central Tai languages differ from Northern Tai languages in that Central Tai distinguishes unaspirated and aspirated onsets, while Northern Tai generally does not (Li 1977). Southwestern Tai also displays this kind of aspiration contrast. Classification William Gedney considers Central Tai to be more closely related to Southwestern Tai than to Northern Tai, while André-Georges Haudricourt argues for a closer relation to Northern Tai. Pittayaporn's (2009) tentative tree of the Tai branch, however, considers Central Tai to be paraphyletic. Certain languages in predominantly Central Tai-speaking areas, such as Caolan and Nùng An in northern Vietnam, display Northern Tai features as well. These appear to be mixed languages that are not fully Central Tai or Northern Tai. Jerold A. Edmondson calls Caolan a "tertium quid." Jerold Edmondson's (2014)Edmondson, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Napo County
Napo County (; za, Nazboh Yen) is a county in the west of Guangxi, China, bordering Yunnan province to the north and northwest as well as Vietnam's Cao Bằng and Hà Giang provinces to the south and west, respectively. It is under the administration of Baise city. Demographics Ethnic groups in Napo County include the following (''Napo County Gazetteer'').http://www.gxdqw.com/bin/mse.exe?seachword=&K=c&A=18&rec=46&run=13 *Han Chinese *Zhuang people * Buyang people *Miao people **White Miao 白苗 *Yao people **Landian Yao 蓝靛瑶; autonyms: Xiumen 秀门, Jinmen 金门 **Daban Yao 大板瑶; autonym: Mian 勉 *Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with eac ... **White Yi 白彝 **Red Yi 红彝 Zhuang The "Buzhuang" 布壮 (including the Black-Clothed Zhuang 黑衣壮, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |