The Hlai languages (Chinese: 黎语; pinyin: Líyǔ) are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central...

believe that the original homeland of the Hlai languages was the Leizhou Peninsula, and estimate that the Hlai had migrated across the Hainan Strait to...

Laqua and dai, a form of a Hlai autonym. Benedict's (1942) "Kadai" group was based on his observation that Kra and Hlai languages have Austronesian-like numerals...

Proto-Hlai is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages. Proto-Hlai reconstructions include those of Matisoff (1988), Thurgood (1991), Wu (2000)...

Róng. Other languages with proposed Austroasiatic substrata are: Jiamao, based on evidence from the register system of Jiamao, a Hlai language (Thurgood...

this is Hlai. Most other Kra–Dai languages adopted Chinese numerals over 1000 years ago. As noted by Jerold A. Edmondson, the Kra languages contain words...

island and compose 15% of the population. Their native languages include the Hlai languages. The Hlai are recognized by the Chinese government as one of the...

Look up Hlai or HLAI in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hlai may refer to: Hlai people, an ethnic group of China Hlai languages, a group of Tai-Kadai...

including Sinitic languages such as Hainanese and Standard Chinese, Tai–Kadai languages such as the Hlai languages, and Hmong–Mien languages such as Kim Mun...

Tibetans) The Tai–Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Bouyei, the Dai, the Dong, and the Hlai (Li people); 9 official ethnicities....

000 years ago. The Pre-Hlai language they spoke would later evolve into Proto-Hlai, and from there into the modern Hlai languages. In June 1956, China's...

"village language/speech"), also known as Gelong (仡隆语 / 哥隆语) or Ngan-Fon, is a Kra–Dai language spoken on Hainan Island. It is a part of the Hlai languages branch...

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Kra-Dai Hlai languages Kam-Sui languages Kra languages Be language Tai languages Northern Tai languages Central Tai languages Southwestern Tai languages Northwestern...

smaller languages, which together with the Northwestern Tai and Lao-Phutai languages, form the Southwestern branch of Tai languages. The Tai languages are...

Hlai languages, which constitute a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family, but Norquest (2007, 2015) and others note that Jiamao has a non-Hlai substratum...

of Proto-Hlai (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Arizona. hdl:10150/194203. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-14. List of languages with [ɱ]...

Zulu, and Asian languages, such as Chukchi, some Yue dialects like Taishanese, the Hlai languages of Hainan, and several Formosan languages and dialects...

Proto-Southern Kra-Dai, which is ancestral to the Hlai languages, Ong Be language, and Tai languages. There are 28 consonants, 5–7 vowels, 9 closed rimes...

of Proto-Hlai. Ph.D. dissertation. Tucson: Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Blust, Robert A. 2009. The Austronesian Languages. Canberra:...

[ˈlɐj ðu kɐzɐˈmẽtu ðɐ ʁɛˈpuβlikɐ pupuˈlaɾ ðɐ ˈʃinɐ] In some other languages of China: Hlai: Dongxghwax Naengsmiens Gong'hwasgok Hunxinxpat Hmong: Txoj cai...

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refer to their native language as Qiongwen to distinguish themselves from other groups of Hainan such as the Cantonese, Tanka, Hlai, Miao, etc. Han Hainanese...

free dictionary. LIC is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to: Hlai language (an ISO639-3 code: lic) Laudetur Iesus Christus, a Roman Catholic greeting...

historical linguistics, language contact, and second language acquisition. Thurgood has reconstructed Chamic (Austronesian), the Hlai languages (Kra-Dai and Kam-Sui)...

various Zhuang languages that comprise the Northern and Central branches of Tai languages, and even more distantly to the other Kra-Dai languages. Within Thailand...

Hlai branches had already formed by about 5,000 years B.P. Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages". The Languages and...

branch of Tai languages. The Tai languages are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family, which encompasses a large number of indigenous languages spoken in...

the Americas, and the Pacific. Tonal languages are different from pitch-accent languages in that tonal languages can have each syllable with an independent...

Austro-Tai languages, sometimes also Austro-Thai languages, are a proposed language family that comprises the Austronesian languages and Kra–Dai languages. Related...