Kim Mun language (金门方言) is a
Mienic language spoken by 200,000 of the
Yao people
The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; ; vi, người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in t ...
in the provinces of
Guangxi,
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...
and
Hainan
Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...
, with about 61,000 of the speakers in Hainan Province (figures as per Ethnologue, 25th Edition).
Iu Mien and Kim Mun are very similar to each other, having a lexical similarity percentage of 78%.
Distribution
In China, Kim Mun is spoken in the following counties (Mao 2004:304-305).
*''Yunnan'': Hekou, Malipo, Maguan, Xichou, Qiubei, Guangnan, Funing, Yanshan, Shizong, Jiangcheng, Mojiang, Yuanyang, Jinping, Lüchun, Mengla, Jinghong
*''Guangxi'': Xilin, Lingyun, Napo, Tianlin, Fengshan, Bama, Lipu, Pingle, Mengshan, Jinxiu, Yongfu, Luzhai, Fangcheng, Shangsi
*''Hainan'': Qiongzhong, Baoting, Qionghai, Tunchang, Ledong, Wanning, Yaxian
The Ethnologue lists several counties in Vietnam where Kim Mun is spoken. The Van Ban district of Lao Cai province is perhaps the primary area. In Vietnam,
Dao people
The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; ; vi, người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in ...
belonging to the Quần Trắng, Thanh Y, and Áo Dài subgroups speak Kim Mun.
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Notes
References
*Clark, Eddie. (2008)
''A phonological analysis and comparison of two Kim Mun varieties in Laos and Vietnam (Master's thesis)''
Payap University.
*Phạm Văn Duy. 2014. ''Văn hóa dân gian Kinh Môn''. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin.
*Phan Hữu Dật & Hoàng Hoa Toàn. 1998. "Về vấn đề xác minh tên gọi và phân loại các ngành Dao Tuyên Quang." In Phan Hữu Dật (ed). ''Một số vấn đề về dân tộc học Việt Nam'', p.483-567. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Đại Học Quốc Gia Hà Nội.
*Shintani Tadahiko. 1990. The Mun language of Hainan Island : its classified lexicon [海南島門語: 分類詞滙集]. Tokyo: ILCAA.
*Shintani Tadahiko. 2008. The Mun language of Funing County: its classified lexicon. Tokyo: ILCAA.
External links
Asia Harvest. (N.d.
"People Group Profiles: Kim Mun"
Retrieved 12 June 2019.
Hmong–Mien languages
Languages of China
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