Social:Hm Nai language
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Short description: Hmongic language spoken in Hunan, China
| Hm Nai | |
|---|---|
| Wunai | |
| Ng-nai | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Hunan |
| Ethnicity | 8,000 (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 5,800 (2002)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bwn |
| Glottolog | wuna1248[2] |
Hm Nai (Mandarin: Wunai (唔奈 Wúnài), Cantonese: Ng-nai) is a Hmong-Mien language (Chinese: Miao-Yao 苗瑶) spoken[3] in western Hunan province, China . There are approximately 5800 people speaking this language, and the number is decreasing.[4] Mao & Li (1997) determined it to be closely related to the Pa-Hng language.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hm Nai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Wunai Bunu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/wuna1248.
- ↑ Brenzinger, Matthias, ed (2007) (in en). Language Diversity Endangered. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017050-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6p6b5GQ4Q4YC&q=Hm+Nai+language&pg=PA285.
- ↑ "Bunu, Wunai". http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/bwn/.
Bibliography
- Mao, Zongwu 毛宗武; Li, Yunbing 李云兵 (1997) (in zh). Bāhēngyǔ yánjiū. Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong chubanshe.
- Meng, Chaoji 蒙朝吉 (2001) (in zh). Yáozú Bùnǔyǔ fāngyán yánjiū. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
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