Pa Na (; autonym: ') is a
Hmongic language spoken by about 1,000 people in Shangpai (上排), Zhongpai (中排), and Xiapai (下排) of
Chengbu County
Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City.
Located on ...
, and Huangshuangping (黄双坪),
Suining County in
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 to ...
, China. It is also called "Red Miao." Yoshihisa Taguchi (2012)
considers Pa Na to be most closely related to
She
She most commonly refers to:
*She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English.
She or S.H.E. may also refer to:
Literature and films
*'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...
and
Jiongnai.
Yoshihisa Taguchi (2001) covers the Xiapai (下排) dialect of Pa Na.
Distribution
According to the ''Suining County Gazetteer'' (1997:657), in
Suining County, Pa Na (坝哪话, autonym: '; exonym: known as ''Zhaishanghua'' 寨上话 by the locals), is spoken by no more than 3,000 people in Tanni (潭泥), Moshi (磨石), Chiban (赤板), Jiexi (界溪), Shangbao (上堡), and other villages, all located in the southern part of Huangshuangping Township (黄双坪乡).
Taguchi (2001: 83) reports that Pana is spoken by about 1,100 people in the following five villages of Yanzhai Township (岩寨乡), Chengbu County, Hunan.
*Shangpai (上排村)
*Xiapai (下排村)
*Desheng (得胜村)
*Liuma (六马村)
*Changxing (长兴村)
See also
*
Pana word list (Wiktionary)
References
Pa Na numbers at lingweb.eva.mpg.de*
*
West Hmongic languages
Languages of China
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