Va Language

	Va Language Va is a pair of Angkuic languages spoken in Mojiang Hani Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. Although the Va autonym is ', the language is not Wa, and neither does it belong to the Waic language subgroup. Rather, Va constitutes a separate subdivision within the Angkuic languages. Northern Va (about 2,000 speakers): spoken in Taihe Administrative Village 太和村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan, China. Northern Va is spoken by all generations, including children. Southern Va (about 1,000 speakers): spoken in Zhenglong Administrative Village 正龙村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan, China. Southern Va is more endangered and is not spoken by children, but is also more phonologically conservative. Distribution Northern Va is spoken in about eight villages of Taihe Village 太和村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan. Wamo 挖墨 Xinzhai 新寨 (Upper 上 and Lower 下) Jiuzhai 旧寨 Dazhai 大寨 (Upper 上 and Lowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Waic Languages The Waic languages are spoken in Shan State, Burma, in Northern Thailand, and in Yunnan province, China. Classification Gérard Diffloth reconstructed Proto-Waic in a 1980 paper. His classification is as follows (Sidwell 2009). (Note: Individual languages are highlighted in ''italics''.) Waic * Samtau (later renamed "Blang" by Diffloth) *''Samtau'' Wa–Lawa–La *Wa proper '' Wa'' * Lawa **''Bo Luang'' ''Umphal'' The recently discovered Meung Yum and Savaiq languages of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster. Other Waic languages in Shan State, eastern 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, Joh ... are En and Siam (Hsem), which are referred to by Scott (1900) as En and Son. Hsiu (2015)Hsiu, Andrew. 2015''The Angkuic languages: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mojiang County Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China. Administrative divisions In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;12 towns ;2 townships * Longtan () * Naha () ;1 ethnic township * Yi Mengnong () Demographics There was a total of 210,628 ethnic Hani in Mojiang County as of 2006. Hani subgroups in Mojiang County include the following, with 2006 population estimates (Jiang, et al. 2009:3) and language classifications (''Mojiang County Ethnic Gazetteer'' 2007:22).墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局编 (2007)墨江哈尼族自治县民族志(1950-2005) Mojiang, China: 墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局. Bi-Ka languages * Biyue 碧约 (63,359 people) Kaduo 卡多 (62,696 people) Ximoluo 西摩洛 (14,711 people) ** Kabie 卡别 (1,243 people) Hao-Bai languages * Haoni 豪尼 (29,915 people) ... [...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]
	Mojiang Hani Autonomous County Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China. Administrative divisions In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;12 towns ;2 townships * Longtan () * Naha () ;1 ethnic township * Yi Mengnong () Demographics There was a total of 210,628 ethnic Hani in Mojiang County as of 2006. Hani subgroups in Mojiang County include the following, with 2006 population estimates (Jiang, et al. 2009:3) and language classifications (''Mojiang County Ethnic Gazetteer'' 2007:22).墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局编 (2007)墨江哈尼族自治县民族志(1950-2005) Mojiang, China: 墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局. Bi-Ka languages * Biyue 碧约 (63,359 people) Kaduo 卡多 (62,696 people) Ximoluo 西摩洛 (14,711 people) ** Kabie 卡别 (1,243 people) Hao-Bai languages * Haoni 豪尼 (29,915 people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Administrative Divisions Of Yunnan Yunnan, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions. Administrative divisions All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at political divisions of China. Recent changes in administrative divisions Population composition Prefectures Counties List of autonomous subdivisions by ethnic group There are 29 autonomous counties and 8 autonomous prefectures assigned to 18 different ethnic minorities in Yunnan. ; Yi (15 counties, 2 prefectures) Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Kunming Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Kunming Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County, Kunming Eshan Yi Autonomous County, Yuxi Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yuxi Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yuxi Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Lijiang Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Jinggu Dai and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wa Language Wa (Va) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Wa people of Myanmar and China. There are three distinct varieties, sometimes considered separate languages; their names in ''Ethnologue'' are Parauk, the majority and standard form; Vo (Zhenkang Wa, 40,000 speakers) and Awa (100,000 speakers), though all may be called ''Wa'', ''Awa'', ''Va'', ''Vo''. David Bradley (1994) estimates there are total of 820,000 Wa speakers. Distribution and variants Gerard Diffloth refers to the Wa geographic region as the "Wa corridor", which lies between the Salween and Mekong Rivers. According to Diffloth, variants include South Wa, "Bible Wa" and Kawa (Chinese Wa). Christian Wa are more likely to support the use of Standard Wa, since their Bible is based on a standard version of Wa, which is in turn based on the variant spoken in Bang Wai, 150 miles north of Kengtung (Watkins 2002). Bang Wai is located in Northern Shan State, Burma, close to the Chinese border where Cangyuan County is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Languages Of Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in 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 Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi, and Tibet as well as Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014. Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as . Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Va Language Va is a pair of Angkuic languages spoken in Mojiang Hani Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. Although the Va autonym is ', the language is not Wa, and neither does it belong to the Waic language subgroup. Rather, Va constitutes a separate subdivision within the Angkuic languages. Northern Va (about 2,000 speakers): spoken in Taihe Administrative Village 太和村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan, China. Northern Va is spoken by all generations, including children. Southern Va (about 1,000 speakers): spoken in Zhenglong Administrative Village 正龙村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan, China. Southern Va is more endangered and is not spoken by children, but is also more phonologically conservative. Distribution Northern Va is spoken in about eight villages of Taihe Village 太和村, Jingxing Township 景星乡, Mojiang County, Yunnan. Wamo 挖墨 Xinzhai 新寨 (Upper 上 and Lower 下) Jiuzhai 旧寨 Dazhai 大寨 (Upper 上 and Lowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Waic Languages The Waic languages are spoken in Shan State, Burma, in Northern Thailand, and in Yunnan province, China. Classification Gérard Diffloth reconstructed Proto-Waic in a 1980 paper. His classification is as follows (Sidwell 2009). (Note: Individual languages are highlighted in ''italics''.) Waic * Samtau (later renamed "Blang" by Diffloth) *''Samtau'' Wa–Lawa–La *Wa proper '' Wa'' * Lawa **''Bo Luang'' ''Umphal'' The recently discovered Meung Yum and Savaiq languages of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster. Other Waic languages in Shan State, eastern 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, Joh ... are En and Siam (Hsem), which are referred to by Scott (1900) as En and Son. Hsiu (2015)Hsiu, Andrew. 2015''The Angkuic languages: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mojiang County Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China. Administrative divisions In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;12 towns ;2 townships * Longtan () * Naha () ;1 ethnic township * Yi Mengnong () Demographics There was a total of 210,628 ethnic Hani in Mojiang County as of 2006. Hani subgroups in Mojiang County include the following, with 2006 population estimates (Jiang, et al. 2009:3) and language classifications (''Mojiang County Ethnic Gazetteer'' 2007:22).墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局编 (2007)墨江哈尼族自治县民族志(1950-2005) Mojiang, China: 墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局. Bi-Ka languages * Biyue 碧约 (63,359 people) Kaduo 卡多 (62,696 people) Ximoluo 西摩洛 (14,711 people) ** Kabie 卡别 (1,243 people) Hao-Bai languages * Haoni 豪尼 (29,915 people) ... [...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]
	Mojiang Hani Autonomous County Mojiang Hani Autonomous County (; Hani: ) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, in the south of Yunnan Province, China. Administrative divisions In the present, Mojiang Hani Autonomous County has 12 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;12 towns ;2 townships * Longtan () * Naha () ;1 ethnic township * Yi Mengnong () Demographics There was a total of 210,628 ethnic Hani in Mojiang County as of 2006. Hani subgroups in Mojiang County include the following, with 2006 population estimates (Jiang, et al. 2009:3) and language classifications (''Mojiang County Ethnic Gazetteer'' 2007:22).墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局编 (2007)墨江哈尼族自治县民族志(1950-2005) Mojiang, China: 墨江哈尼族自治县民族宗教事务局. Bi-Ka languages * Biyue 碧约 (63,359 people) Kaduo 卡多 (62,696 people) Ximoluo 西摩洛 (14,711 people) ** Kabie 卡别 (1,243 people) Hao-Bai languages * Haoni 豪尼 (29,915 people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Administrative Divisions Of Yunnan Yunnan, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions. Administrative divisions All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at political divisions of China. Recent changes in administrative divisions Population composition Prefectures Counties List of autonomous subdivisions by ethnic group There are 29 autonomous counties and 8 autonomous prefectures assigned to 18 different ethnic minorities in Yunnan. ; Yi (15 counties, 2 prefectures) Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Kunming Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Kunming Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County, Kunming Eshan Yi Autonomous County, Yuxi Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yuxi Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yuxi Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Lijiang Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Jinggu Dai and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wa Language Wa (Va) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Wa people of Myanmar and China. There are three distinct varieties, sometimes considered separate languages; their names in ''Ethnologue'' are Parauk, the majority and standard form; Vo (Zhenkang Wa, 40,000 speakers) and Awa (100,000 speakers), though all may be called ''Wa'', ''Awa'', ''Va'', ''Vo''. David Bradley (1994) estimates there are total of 820,000 Wa speakers. Distribution and variants Gerard Diffloth refers to the Wa geographic region as the "Wa corridor", which lies between the Salween and Mekong Rivers. According to Diffloth, variants include South Wa, "Bible Wa" and Kawa (Chinese Wa). Christian Wa are more likely to support the use of Standard Wa, since their Bible is based on a standard version of Wa, which is in turn based on the variant spoken in Bang Wai, 150 miles north of Kengtung (Watkins 2002). Bang Wai is located in Northern Shan State, Burma, close to the Chinese border where Cangyuan County is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Languages Of Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in 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 Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi, and Tibet as well as Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014. Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as . Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]