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Sani Language
Sani () is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the Chinese government, under the name Southeastern Yi. Sani is spoken in Shilin, Luliang, Luxi, Shizong, Yiliang, Malong, Luquan, and Mile counties by about 120,000 speakers.Wang Chengyou 成有 2003. ''Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu'' 语方言比较研究 Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press 川民族出版社 The Sani call themselves . Their language is distinct from the closely related Samei, whose speakers call themselves ''Sani'' . Another group known as the ''Sa'' 撒 (autonym: Sani 撒尼) lives in Qiubei County (Yunnan 1960).Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha zubian 云南民族识别综合调查组编 (1960).Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha baogao 云南民族识别综合调查报告'. Kunming: Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaochazu 云南民族识别综合调查组. Yunnan (1960) considers it to be similar to Sani of Shilin County Shilin Yi ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ...
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Yiliang County, Kunming
Yiliang County () is a county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, China. Administrative divisions *Kuangyuan Town (匡远镇) * Beigucheng Town (北古城镇) *Tangchi Town (汤池镇) * Goujie Town (狗街镇) * Gengjiaying Yi Nationality & Miao Nationality Village (耿家营彝族苗族乡) *Jiuxiang Yi Nationality & Hui Nationality Village (九乡彝族回族乡) * Majie Village (马街乡) *Zhushan Village Zhushan () is a village in Zhusha urban village of Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. It is also the home of the Xue clan in Kinmen. See also * Village (Taiwan) Villages are the basic level administrative su ... (竹山乡) Climate References Area Code and Postal Code in Yunnan Province External links Yiliang County, Kunming Official Website County-level divisions of Kunming {{Yunnan-geo-stub ...
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Shilin County
Shilin Yi Autonomous County (: Sani: ) is an autonomous county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, China. Etymology Lunan Yi Autonomous County () is the former name of Shilin, and usually be called for short as Lunan County (). The name of "Lunan" was first appeared in 1275, Yuan Dynasty, when the administrative division of Lunan Zhou () established. The name Lunan means "South of Middle Lu ()". But in 1998, another said of the word's origin meaning was proposed when Lunan County apply for change the name to Shilin. The research shows "Lunan" means "South People (the most inferior people in Yuan Dynasty citizen system) in Chengjiang Lu", it is a discriminatory name. Finally Lunan County was changed the name to Shilin, which means "stone forest", also is a famous tourist site in the county. History Archaeological research show that as early as 800,000 years ago, humans began to settle in this region. Shilin area was dominated by Liangzhou () in ...
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Qiubei County
Qiubei County () is under the administration of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in southeast Yunnan province, China. Administrative divisions In the present, Qiubei County has 3 towns, 4 townships and 5 ethnic townships. ;3 towns * Jinping () * Yuezhe () * Shuanglongying () ;4 townships ;5 ethnic townships Ethnic groups The ''Qiubei County Gazetteer'' 丘北县志 (1999) lists the following ethnic subgroups. *Han * Zhuang *Miao **Green Miao 青苗 (autonym: Mengshi 蒙史) **White Miao 白苗 (autonym: Mengdou 蒙斗) **Flowery Miao 花苗 (autonym: Mengzhua 蒙爪) * Yao **Landian Yao 蓝靛瑶 **Daban Yao 大板瑶 **Guoshan Yao 过山瑶 * Yi **Naisoupo 乃叟泼 (Black Yi 黑彝) **Guopo 锅泼 or Boren 僰人 (White Yi 白彝) **Sanipo 撒尼泼 (Sani 撒尼): in Badaoshao 八道哨, Shuanglongying 双龙营, and Yuezhe 曰者 (''Wenshan Prefecture Ethnic Gazetteer'' 2005:352) **Poulongpo 剖笼泼 (Pula 仆拉) **Boren 僰人: in Shede 舍得 (in Ba ...
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Endonym And Exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, or linguistic community in question; it is their self-designated name for themselves, their homeland, or their language. An exonym (from Greek: , 'outer' + , 'name'; also known as xenonym) is an established, ''non-native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community. Exonyms exist not only for historico-geographical reasons but also in consideration of difficulties when pronouncing foreign words. For instance, is the endonym for the country that is also known by the exonym ''Germany'' in English, in Spanish and in French. Naming and etymology The terms ''autonym'', ''endonym'', ''exonym'' and ''xe ...
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Samei Language
Samei (autonym: ') is a Loloish language of Yunnan, China closely related to Sani (Bradley 2005). It is spoken in 47 villages in and around Ala Township 阿拉彝族乡, just southeast of downtown Kunming Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ..., as well as in 7 villages in western Yiliang County (''Ethnologue''). There are about 20,000 speakers out of an estimated 28,000 ethnic population. Samei lexical data is also documented in Satterthwaite-Phillips (2011). References * *Satterthwaite-Phillips, Damian. 2011. ''Phylogenetic inference of the Tibeto-Burman languages or On the usefulness of lexicostatistics (and "Megalo"-comparison) for the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman''. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University. Loloish languages Languages of China {{st-lan ...
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Mile City
Mile (; ; Hani language: ; Yi: ) is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the only city in China named after The Buddha. It is a center for sugar and tobacco production in Yunnan. History Mile has been known since at least 116 BC in written history. In 1290 it was established as a prefecture and in 1770 as a county. It is the birthplace of Ming dynasty politician Yang Shengwu ( 杨绳武), Qing dynasty merchant Wang Chi ( :zh:王炽) and Republic era general Zhang Chong and mathematician Xiong Qinglai. In 2014, Mile County was upgraded as a county level city. Administrative divisions In the present, Mile City has 10 towns and 2 townships. ;10 towns ;2 townships * Wushan () * Jiangbian () Demographics Mile has a population of 570,100 as of 2021, including 44.9% ethnic minorities. The ''Mile County Gazettee ...
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Luquan Yi And Miao Autonomous County
Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County (; A-Hmao: ) is an autonomous county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, Yunnan, China, bordering Sichuan province to the north. As of the 2020 census the population was 378,881. The county seat has two bus stations. The first is the long-distance Kunming-Luquan bus station, near the access to the G108 highway. The second is the local public bus station behind the Wuxinglu street market, with buses north to Maoshan, Tuanjie, Zhongping and Sayingpan, south to Songde, east to Cuihua and west to Wuding County. Economy Luquan's agriculture is specialized in sericulture, chestnuts, white kidney beans, coffee, and tobacco. Administrative divisions Ethnic groups 29.95% of the population in 2020 belonged to ethnic minorities, mainly Yi and Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing s ...
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Malong District
Malong District () is a district of the city of Qujing, Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ... province, China. Administrative divisions Malong District has 5 subdistricts, 2 towns and 3 townships. ;5 subdistricts ;2 towns * Maguohe () * Nazhang () ;3 townships * Maming () * Dazhuang () * Yuewang () Climate References External linksMalong County Official Website County-level divisions of Qujing {{Yunnan-geo-stub ...
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Shizong County
Shizong County () is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qujing, in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guangxi to the southeast. The Landian Yao () people of Gaoliang Township () are found in Xin'an (), Dinglei (), Xidu (), Shanglongga (), and Xialongga () villages. Administrative divisions Shizong County has 3 subdistricts, 4 towns and 3 ethnic townships. ;3 subdistricts * Danfeng () * Yangyue () * Datong Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 cens ... () ;4 towns ;3 ethnic townships * Longqing Yi and Zhuang () * Wulong Zhuang () * Gaoliang Zhuang Miao and Yao () Climate References External linksShizong County Official Website County-level divisions of Qujing {{Yunnan-geo-stub ...
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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 ...
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Luxi County, Yunnan
Luxi County () is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. Luxi was the capital of the medieval Yi Ziqi Kingdom. Administrative divisions In the present, Luxi County has 5 towns and 3 townships. ;5 towns ;3 townships * Xiangyang Xiangyang is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei province, China and the second largest city in Hubei by population. It was known as Xiangfan from 1950 to 2010. The Han River runs through Xiangyang's centre and divides the city no ... () * Santang () * Yongning () Ethnic groups There are five ethnic Yi subgroups in Luxi County, namely White Yi 白彝, Sani 撒尼, Black Yi 黑彝, Awu 阿乌, and Dry Yi 干彝, with the Dry Yi living mostly in Xiaobai Shitou 小白石头 and Baishui Wunaibai 白水吾乃白 of Jinma Town 金马镇.泸西县文联. 2014泸西彝族――“东爨乌蛮”的后裔 Climate References External linksLuxi County County-level divisions of Honghe Prefecture
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