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Hlai languages

Index Hlai languages

The Hlai languages are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan in China, not to be confused with the colloquial name for the Leizhou branch of Min Chinese. [1]

18 relations: Baisha Li Autonomous County, Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, Changjiang Li Autonomous County, China, Cun language, Dongfang, Hainan, Hainan, Jiamao language, Kra languages, Kra–Dai languages, Latin script, Leizhou Min, Leizhou Peninsula, Li people, Linguistic reconstruction, Marc Miyake, Proto-Hlai language, Qiongzhou Strait.

Baisha Li Autonomous County

Baisha Li Autonomous County (postal: Paksha) is an autonomous county in Hainan, China.

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Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County

Bǎotíng Li and Miao Autonomous County (postal: Baoting) is an autonomous county in Hainan, China.

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Changjiang Li Autonomous County

Changjiang Li Autonomous County (postal: Cheongkong) is an autonomous county in Hainan, China.

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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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Cun language

Cun is a Hlai language of Hainan Island.

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Dongfang, Hainan

Dongfang is one of the seven county-level cities of Hainan province, China.

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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.

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Jiamao language

Jiamao (加茂, Kamau; also Tai 台 or Sai 塞) is a divergent Hlai language spoken in southern Hainan, China.

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Kra languages

The Kra languages (Chinese: Gēyāng, 仡央, short for '''Ge'''lao–Bu'''yang''') are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan) and in northern Vietnam.

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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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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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Leizhou Min

Leizhou Min is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city and neighbouring areas on the Leizhou peninsula in the west of Guangdong province.

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Leizhou Peninsula

The Leizhou Peninsula, formerly romanized as the Luichow Peninsula, is a peninsula in the southernmost part of Guangdong Province in southern China.

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Li people

The Li (黎; pinyin: Lí) or Hlai are an ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

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Linguistic reconstruction

Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages.

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Marc Miyake

Marc Hideo Miyake (Japanese name:; born July 28, 1971) is an American linguist, who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.

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Proto-Hlai language

The Proto-Hlai language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages.

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Qiongzhou Strait

The Qiongzhou Strait, also called the Hainan Strait, is a body of water that separates the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, southern China, to the north from Hainan Island to its south.

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Redirects here:

Hlai language, ISO 639:lic, Li language.

References

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

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