Social:Blang language
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Short description: Language of the Blang people
| Blang | |
|---|---|
| Pulang | |
| Template:Script/Tai Tham | |
| Region | China , Burma |
| Ethnicity | Blang |
Native speakers | (68,000 cited 1994–2000)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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| Dialects |
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| Tai Tham, Tai Le | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:blr – Blangstu – Samtao |
| Glottolog | blan1242 Blang[2]samt1238 Samtao[3] |
| Linguasphere | 46-DBA-c |
Blang (Pulang) is the language of the Blang people of Burma and China.
Dialects
Samtao of Burma is a dialect.[4]
Blang dialects include the following:[5]
- Bulang 布朗; representative dialect: Xinman'e 新曼俄, Bulangshan District 布朗山区, Menghai County[6]
- A'erwa 阿尔佤 (Awa 阿佤); representative dialect: Guanshuang 关双, Mengman Township 勐满镇, Menghai County[7]
Phonology[8]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̊ | |||
| Stop | plain | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | cʰ | kʰ | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Approximant | voiced | w | l | j | ||
| voiceless | l̥ | j̊ | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Front | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||
| plain | breathy | plain | breathy | plain | breathy | |
| Close | i | i̤ | ɯ | ɯ̤ | u | ṳ |
| Close-mid | e | e̤ | o | o̤ | ||
| Open-mid | ɔ | ɔ̤ | ||||
| Open | a | a̤ | ||||
Blang also has two tones - high and low.
See also
References
- ↑ Blang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Samtao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Blang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/blan1242.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Samtao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/samt1238.
- ↑ "Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft)". http://sealang.net/sala/mk-class.htm.
- ↑ Li, Nie & Qiu (1986)
- ↑ "Měnghǎi Xiàn Bùlǎngshān Xiāng Měngáng Cūnwěihuì Xīnmàné Zìráncūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=140952.
- ↑ "Měnghǎi Xiàn Měngmǎn Zhèn Guānshuāng Cūnwěihuì Guānshuāng" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=178019.
- ↑ Block, Karen Louise. 1994. Discourse Grammar of First Person Narrative in Plang. (MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington).
Sources
- Li, Daoyong 李道勇; Nie, Xizhen 聂锡珍; Qiu, Efeng 邱锷锋 (1986) (in zh). Bùlǎngyǔ jiǎnzhì. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
- Harper, Jero Alan (2009). Phonological Descriptions of Plang spoken in Man Noi, La Gang, and Bang Deng Villages (in China) (PDF) (MA thesis). Payap University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09.
External links
- Some links to Wa-related Internet sites
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9BBE-B@view Samtao in RWAAI Digital Archive
- Recordings of 'Pang' are available in the Xuan Guan Collection of Kaipuleohone archive
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