Social:Luobohe Miao language
| Luobo River Miao | |
|---|---|
| A-Hmyo, Ā-hmiò | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | central Guizhou |
Native speakers | (61,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Hmong–Mien
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hml |
| Glottolog | luop1235[2] |
Luobohe Miao (罗泊河 Luóbóhé Miao, Luobo River Miao, Luopohe Hmong; Xijia Miao 西家苗), also known as Hmjo or A-Hmyo, is a Miao language of China.
Distribution
According to Chen Qiguang (2013), there are more than 50,000 ʔə55 m̥ø31 (Flowery Miao 花苗) speakers in Kaiyang, Fuquan, Longli, Guiding, Weng'an, and other counties of southeastern Guizhou.
Phonology
Luobo River Miao has an unusually small number of tones for a Hmongic language, with just three: high ˥ 55, rising ˨˦ 24, and falling ˧˩ 31.[3]
Xijia
Xijia (西家), a variety of Luobohe Miao, had 1,300 speakers as of 2000 in 21 villages surrounding Kaili City, Guizhou, and in Pingzhai Village (平寨村) of Longchang Township (龙厂乡), and Xiangma (响马村), Loumiao (娄苗菜), and Fuzhuang Villages of Lushan Township (卢山乡).[4] It is also spoken in Majiatun Township (马家屯乡) and Dabaomu Township (大保姆乡) of Kaili City.[5] The Xijia of Shiban Village (石板寨村), Dafengdong Township (大风洞乡), Kaili cannot communicate with the neighboring Ge (Gejia) people.
According to Chen Qiguang (2007),[6] the Xijia (autonym: qo0 mjo31) numbered 1,941 people as of 1983, and were distributed in Laojunzhai (老君寨), Majiatun (马家屯), Shibanzhai 石板寨), and Daxiao Baoben (大小泡) of Kaili City.
Within Luobohe, Xijia is classified as "Dialect 1" (第一土语). while Yejipo Miao (野鸡坡话) is classified as "Dialect 2" (第二土语). Chen's (2007) data was collected by Luo Daoqin (罗道钦 from Shibanzhai (石板寨) in 1983. Additionally, a Miao variety spoken in Gusa (谷撒寨), Sizhai Village (四寨村), Xinpu Township (新铺乡), Guiding County, Guizhou belongs to the "Dialect 2" cluster.[7]
References
- ↑ Luobo River Miao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Luopohe Hmong". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/luop1235.
- ↑ Wu, Zhengbiao 吴正彪; Yang, Guangying 杨光应 (2010). "Máshān cì fāngyán qū Miáowén fāng'àn de shèjì yǔ shǐyòng - jiān tán Miáozú yīngxióng shǐshī “Yàlǔ wáng” de jì yì zhěnglǐ wèntí" (in zh). Mínzú fānyì 2010 (3): 58–65. http://218.249.224.102/upfile/20115613035615353.pdf. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
- ↑ "Xi" (in en). http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/X/Xi.pdf.
- ↑ "Xījiā" (in zh). http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/X/Xi.jpg.
- ↑ Chen, Qiguang 陈其光 (2007). "Xījiā Miáoyǔ" (in zh). Mínzú yǔwén 2007 (4): 68–81. http://mall.cnki.net/magazine/article/MZYW200704013.htm.
- ↑ Li, Huayi 栗华益 (2011). "Gǔsā Miáoyǔ de shēngdiào tèdiǎn" (in zh). Zhōngguó yǔwén 2011 (3): 271–277, 288.
Works cited
- Chen, Qiguang 陈其光 (2013) (in zh). Miáo-Yáo yǔwén. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.
External links
Further reading
- Taguchi, Yoshihisa (2008). A Vocabulary of Luobohe Miao. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. ISBN 978-4-87297-993-0. OCLC 302311643. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302311643.
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