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Bouyei language

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The Bouyei language (autonym: Haausqyaix also spelled Buyi, Buyei, or Puyi;, tiếng Bố Y or tiếng Giáy) is a language spoken by the Bouyei ethnic group of southern Guizhou Province in mainland China. [1]

77 relations: Affricate consonant, Anshun, Apical consonant, Aspirated consonant, Đồng Văn District, Bảo Lạc District, Bảo Yên District, Bát Xát District, Bijie, Bouyei people, Cao Bằng, China, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Duyun, Exonym and endonym, France, Giáy people, Grammar, Grammatical particle, Guangxi, Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Guiyang, Guizhou, Hà Giang, Hekou Yao Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Kra–Dai languages, Labial consonant, Labialization, Lai Châu, Language family, Laos, Latin script, Lào Cai, Liuzhi Special District, Loanword, Longli County, Maguan County, Mường Khương District, Mường Tè District, Miao Rebellion (1854–73), Northern Tai languages, Northern Vietnam, Palatal consonant, Palatalization (phonetics), Panzhou, Phong Thổ District, Pu'an County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, ..., Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Qing dynasty, Qinglong County, Guizhou, Sa Pa, Sawndip, Shuicheng County, Sichuan, Southwestern Mandarin, Standard Chinese phonology, Syllable, Tai languages, Tai Yo language, Tam Đường District, Lai Châu, Tone (linguistics), Tone contour, United States, Velar consonant, Vietnam, Wangmo County, Weining Yi, Hui, and Miao Autonomous County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, William J. Gedney, Word order, Yên Minh District, Yei Zhuang language, Yunnan, Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County. Expand index (27 more) »

Affricate consonant

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Anshun

Anshun is a prefecture-level city of Guizhou province, near the location of Huangguoshu Waterfall, the tallest in China.

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Apical consonant

An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Đồng Văn District

Đồng Văn is a rural district of Ha Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Bảo Lạc District

Bảo Lạc is a rural district of Cao Bằng Province in the northeast region of Vietnam.

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Bảo Yên District

Bảo Yên is a rural district of Lào Cai Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Bát Xát District

Bát Xát is a rural district of Lào Cai Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Bijie

Bijie is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north and Yunnan to the west.

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Bouyei people

The Bouyei (also spelled Puyi, Buyei and Buyi; self called: Buxqyaix, or "Puzhong", "Burao", "Puman";; Pinyin: Bùyīzú; người Bố Y) are an ethnic group living in southern mainland China.

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Cao Bằng

Cao Bằng is a city in northern Vietnam.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Duyun

Duyun is the capital of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou province in the People's Republic of China.

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Exonym and endonym

An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Giáy people

The Giáy people (Vietnamese: người Giáy), occasionally called the Nhang, are an ethnic group in Vietnam.

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Grammar

In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

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Grammatical particle

In grammar the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County

Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County is an autonomous county in Anshun City, in the southwest of Guizhou Province, China.

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Guiyang

Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province of Southwest China.

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Guizhou

Guizhou, formerly romanized as Kweichow, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country.

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Hà Giang

Hà Giang is a city located on the banks of the Lô River in the north-east region of Vietnam.

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Hekou Yao Autonomous County

The Hekou Yao Autonomous County is an autonomous county in the southern part of the Yunnan province of China.

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Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture

Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeast-central Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.

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Kra–Dai languages

The Kra–Dai languages (also known as Tai–Kadai, Daic and Kadai) are a language family of tonal languages found in southern China, Northeast India and Southeast Asia.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

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Lai Châu

Lai Châu is the capital city of Lai Châu Province in the north-west region of Vietnam.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Laos

Laos (ລາວ,, Lāo; Laos), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; République démocratique populaire lao), commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

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Lào Cai

Lào Cai is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Liuzhi Special District

Liuzhi Special District is a district of Guizhou, China.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Longli County

Longli County is a county in Qiannan Autonomous Prefecture, in central Guizhou Province, China.

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Maguan County

Maguan County (马关县; pinyin: Mǎguān Xiàn, Mã Quan) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

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Mường Khương District

Mường Khương is a rural district of Lào Cai Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Mường Tè District

Mường Tè is a rural district of Lai Châu Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Miao Rebellion (1854–73)

The Miao rebellion of 1854–1873 was an uprising of ethnic Miao and other groups in Guizhou province during the reign of the Qing dynasty.

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Northern Tai languages

The Northern Tai languages are an established branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia.

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Northern Vietnam

Northern Vietnam (Miền Bắc) is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam.

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Palatal consonant

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization (also) or palatization refers to a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

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Panzhou

Panzhou is a county-level city of Guizhou, China.

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Phong Thổ District

Phong Thổ is a rural district of Lai Châu Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Pu'an County

Pu'an County is a county of the Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou, China.

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Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Qiánnán Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (Buyei: Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy) is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangxi to the south.

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Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (Buyei: Qianfxiynanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz Ziqziqzouy), a.k.a. Hsing-i Chuan-ch’ü and Hsing-i Ti-ch’ü is an autonomous prefecture of Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangxi to the south and Yunnan to the west.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Qinglong County, Guizhou

Qinglong County (晴隆县) is a county of Guizhou, China.

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Sa Pa

Sa Pả or Chapa, is a frontier township and capital of Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in north-west Vietnam.

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Sawndip

Zhuang characters, or Sawndip, are logograms derived from Han characters and used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi and Yunnan, China to write the Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years.

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Shuicheng County

Shuicheng County (水城县) is a county of Guizhou, China.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Southwestern Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin, also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin, is a primary branch of Mandarin Chinese spoken in much of central and southwestern China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northern part of Guangxi, and some southern parts of Shaanxi and Gansu.

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Standard Chinese phonology

This article summarizes the phonology (the sound system, or in more general terms, the pronunciation) of Standard Chinese (Standard Mandarin).

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Tai languages

The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages (ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: or) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.

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Tai Yo language

Tai Yo, also known as Tai Mene and Nyaw, is a Tai language of Southeast Asia.

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Tam Đường District, Lai Châu

Tam Đường is a rural district of Lai Châu Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Tone contour

A tone contour, or contour tone, is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Wangmo County

Wangmo County (望谟县) is a county of Guizhou, China.

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Weining Yi, Hui, and Miao Autonomous County

Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County (Xiao'erjing: وِنٍْ یِذُو خُوِذُو مِیَوْذُو ذِجِشِیًا) is a county of Guizhou, China.

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Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Yunnan province, People's Republic of China, and the easternmost prefecture-level division of the province.

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William J. Gedney

William J. Gedney (born April 4, 1915 in Orchards, Washington; died November 14, 1999 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American linguist and Southeast Asian language specialist.

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Word order

In linguistics, word order typology is the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders.

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Yên Minh District

Yên Minh is a rural district of Hà Giang Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Yei Zhuang language

Yei Zhuang is a Northern Tai language complex spoken in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.

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Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County

Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County (紫云苗族布依族自治县) is a county of Guizhou, China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouyei_language

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