Social:Sheic languages

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Sheic
She–Jiongnai
EthnicityYao
Geographic
distribution
China
Linguistic classificationHmong–Mien
Subdivisions
Glottologjion1235[1]

The Sheic or She–Jiongnai languages are a branch of the Miao (Hmongic) language family.

She (Ho-Ne) has long been recognized as a divergent language. It has been difficult to classify because of its numerous Chinese loanwords. Recently, it has been concluded that a few other Miao languages may be closer to She than to the rest of the family.

Languages

Taguchi (2012),[2] in a computational phylogenetic study, found Ho Ne (She), Kiong Nai and Pana (Pa Na) to form a branch of the Miao (Hmongic) family, with She closest to Pa Na. Hsiu (2015, 2018),[3][4] also in a computational phylogenetic study, found She to be closest to Kiong Nai, and added Younuo as a fourth language.

Yuno has also been classified as Bahengic.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Jiongnai-Ho Ne". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/jion1235. 
  2. Yoshihisa Taguchi [田口善久] (2012). On the Phylogeny of the Hmong-Mien languages . Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics 2012.
  3. Hsiu, Andrew. 2015. The classification of Na Meo, a Hmong-Mien language of Vietnam. Paper presented at SEALS 25, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  4. Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Preliminary classification of Hmongic languages.