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U Language
The U language or P'uman (), is spoken by 40,000 people in the Yunnan Province of China and possibly Myanmar. It is classified as an Austroasiatic language in the Palaungic branch. In China, U speakers are classified as ethnic Bulang. Locations U is spoken in Shuangjiang County of Yunnan and other nearby counties. *Wang & Chen (1981) covers the dialect of Pengpan 碰拚, Dafengshan Township 大凤山乡, Shuangjiang County. *Zhou & Yan (1983) covers the dialect of Pangpin 胖品, Yongge Township 永革乡, Shuangjiang County. *Yan & Zhou (2012) cover U of Gantang 甘塘, Yongde County as well as U of Pangpin 胖品. *Svantesson (1991:67) documents the U dialect of Paɑ̃ Xɛp (Bangxie, 邦协), Shahe Township 沙河乡, Shuangjiang County. There two main dialects of U in Shuangjiang County: one spoken in Gongnong (公弄, now part of Mengku Town, 勐库镇) and one spoken in Bangbing (邦丙) and Dawen Mangga (大文乡忙嘎); the Dawen dialect is reportedly mutually intell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khasi–Palaungic Languages
The Khasi–Palaungic languages are a primary branch of the Austroasiatic language family of Southeast Asia in the classification of Sidwell (2011, 2018). This is a departure from Diffloth (2005) classification of Khasi-Khmuic with Khmuic and Mangic (Pakanic) now being separate branches within Austroasiatic family. Languages As per the classification of Sidwell (2011) and (2018), the Khasi–Palaungic languages are as follows: * Khasi–Palaungic ** Khasic: War, Lyngngam, Khasi... ** Palaungic The nearly thirty Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages. Phonological developments Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austroasiatic consonants, with the disti ...: Palaung, Riang, Blang , Wa... Footnotes References *Diffloth, Gérard 2005. "The contribution of linguistic palaeontology and Austroasiatic". in Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. ''The Peopling of Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaungic Languages
The nearly thirty Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages. Phonological developments Most of the Palaungic languages lost the contrastive voicing of the ancestral Austroasiatic consonants, with the distinction often shifting to the following vowel. In the Wa branch, this is generally realized as breathy voice vowel phonation; in Palaung–Riang, as a two-way register tone system. The Angkuic languages have contour tone — the U language, for example, has four tones, ''high, low, rising, falling,'' — but these developed from vowel length and the nature of final consonants, not from the voicing of initial consonants. Homeland Paul Sidwell (2015) suggests that the Palaungic Urheimat (homeland) was in what is now the border region of Laos and Sipsongpanna in Yunnan, China. The Khmuic homeland was adjacent to the Palaungic homeland, resulting in many lexical borrowings among the two branches due to intense contact. Sidwell (2014) suggests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angkuic Languages
The Angkuic languages are spoken in Yunnan province, China and Shan State, Burma. Languages * U (P'uman) * Hu (Kongge, Kun'ge, Kon Keu) * Man Met (Kemie) * Mok * Muak Sa-aak * Va * Mong Lue (Tai Loi) ? Classification Andrew Hsiu (2015)Hsiu, Andrew. 2015''The Angkuic languages: a preliminary survey'' Paper presented ICAAL 6 (6th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics), Siem Reap, Cambodia. proposes the following tentative classification scheme for the Angkuic languages. ;Angkuic *''Eastern'' ( Va) ** Va, Northern ** Va, Southern *''Northern'' ( U) **Xiaoheijiang U (Alva, Auva, U of Shuangjiang) **Northeastern U (P’uman, Avala) **Northwestern U *''Southern'' (?) ** Man Met ** Hu ** Muak Sa-aak **Angku (?) *''Dagun'' (?) Hsiu (2015) suggests that the Angkuic languages originated in the Mekong River valley in the Sipsongpanna Xishuangbanna, Sibsongbanna or Sipsong Panna ( Tham: , New Tai Lü script: ; ; th, สิบสองปันนา; lo, ສິບ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: [ˈmjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə]. So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as [mɑːr] or of Burma as [bɜːrmə] by some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad a, broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austroasiatic Languages
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are the majority languages of Vietnam and Cambodia. There are around 117 million speakers of Austroasiatic languages. Of these languages, only Vietnamese, Khmer, and Mon have a long-established recorded history. Only two have official status as modern national languages: Vietnamese in Vietnam and Khmer in Cambodia. The Mon language is a recognized indigenous language in Myanmar and Thailand. In Myanmar, the Wa language is the de facto official language of Wa State. Santali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. The rest of the languages are spoken by minority groups and have no official status. '' Ethnologue'' identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages. These form thirteen established families (plus perhaps Shompen, which is poorly atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blang People
The Blang (布朗族, Bùlǎngzú; also spelled Bulong) people are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. Names Yan & Zhou (2012:147)Yan Qixiang 其香& Zhou Zhizhi 植志(2012). ''Mon-Khmer languages of China and the Austroasiatic family'' 国孟高棉语族语言与南亚语系 Beijing: Social Sciences Academy Press 会科学文献出版社 list the following autonyms of ethnic Bulang in various counties. *' (布朗): in Xishuangbanna *' (阿佤): in Shuangjiang and Lancang counties *' (乌德尔): some Bulang of Shuangjiang; means 'mountain people' *' (乌): in Yongde (' in Gantang 甘塘), Zhenkang, Shidian (' in Hazhai 哈寨), Changning counties *' (佤): in Mojiang County Exonyms for Bulang include (Yan & Zhou 2012:147): *' (谟): Dai exonym for the Bulang of Xishuangbanna *' (阿别): Hani exonym for the Bulang of Xishuangbanna *' (拉): Dai exonym for the Bulang of Shuangjian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuangjiang County
Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai Autonomous County () is a county in the southwest of Yunnan province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lincang. Administrative divisions Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Bulang and Dai Autonomous County has 2 towns and 4 townships. ;2 towns * Mengmeng () * Mengku () ;4 townships Ethnic groups Ethnic Wa (population: 11,613) are concentrated in the west and south of Shuangjiang County, especially in the following two villages (''Shuangjiang County Gazetteer''). *Man'e 勐峨, Shahe Township 沙河乡 *Nanxie 南协, Bangbing Township 邦丙乡 Transportation *China National Highway 214 China National Highway 214 (G214) runs from Xining, Qinghai to Jinghong, Yunnan. It is 3,256 kilometres in length and runs south from Xining towards Tibet, and ends in Yunnan Province. Route and distance See also * China National Highways ... Climate References External linksShuangjiang County Official Site C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yongde County
Yongde County () is a county in the west of Yunnan province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lincang. Administrative divisions Yongde County has 3 towns, 5 townships and 2 ethnic townships. ;3 towns * Dedang () * Xiaomengtong () * Yongkang () ;5 townships ;2 ethnic townships * Wumulong Yi ( * Daxueshan Yi Lahu and Dai ( Ethnic groups The ''Yongde County Gazetteer'' (1994:115) lists the following ethnic groups. *Limi Limi Valley is a high-altitude valley that forms the northernmost part of the Humla District of north-western Nepal. To its north, the Limi valley borders the Purang County of Tibet, China. Administrative Limi is a ward council of the Namkha ru ... 利米 (Lami branch 腊米支系) *Luoren 倮人 (Gaisu branch 改苏支系) *Xiangtang 香堂 (Lalu branch 腊鲁支系) *Menghua Turen 蒙化土人 (Laluo branch 腊罗支系) *Samadu 撒马堵人 (Samo branch 洒摩支系) *Pengzi 棚子 *Suan 蒜人 Climate Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shidian County
Shidian County () is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Baoshan, in the west of 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. Its seat is the town of Dianyang (). Administrative divisions Shidian County has 5 towns, 6 townships and 2 ethnic townships. ;5 towns ;6 townships ;2 ethnic townships * Bailang Yi and Bulang () * Mulaoyuan Bulang and Yi () Ethnic groups According to the ''Shidian County Gazetteer'' (1997:544), ethnic Bulang (autonyms Wu , Aiwu , Ben people ) are found in Mulaoyuan Township () and Bailang Township (); in the villages of Hazhai (), Upper Mulaoyuan (), Lower Mulaoyuan (), Dazhong (), and Jianshan (); and in Dazhai (), Doupo Village (), town of Yaoguan (). Climate References External linksShidian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonym
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Autonym may refer to: * Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym * Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name See also * Nominotypical subspecies, in zoology, a similar concept to autonym in botany * Xenonym * -onym *Autonomy In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minzu University
Minzu University of China (MUC, ) is a National Key Universities, national public university in Haidian District, Beijing, China designated for ethnic minorities in China. MUC was selected as one of National Key Universities, national key universities to directly receive funding from Double First Class University Plan, former Project 211 and Project 985, aspiring to become a worldwide leading university. It is a Chinese state Class A Double First Class University Plan, Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education. It is colloquially known as ''Míndà'' in Putonghua. It was formerly known in English language, English as the ''Central University for Nationalities'' (''CUN''). Minzu University ranked first in China among universities for ethnic minorities. It aims to be one of the best universities of its kind in the world for inheriting and promoting the excellent culture of all ethnic groups. With the strong support of Chinese government, it has develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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