Akha is the language spoken by the Akha people of southern China (Yunnan Province), eastern Burma (Shan State), northern Laos, and northern Thailand....
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Akha immigrants and there are now 80,000 people living in Thailand's northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai. The Akha speak Akha, a language...
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Province, Iran Akha people, of Myanmar, China and Southeast Asia Akha language, the Loloish (Sino-Tibetan) language of the Akha people Akha Bhagat (1615–1674)...
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Major languages include the Loloish languages, with two million speakers in western Sichuan and northern Yunnan, the Akha language and Hani languages, with...
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languages than others. The Lisu language is closely related to the Lahu and Akha languages and is also related to Burmese, Jingphaw and Yi languages....
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expression (reported in the Kickapoo language in Mexico and in the Hmong and Akha cultures in Asia). "All whistled languages share one basic characteristic:...
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Christianity in Ahka Villages (category Akha)
The recorded arrival of Christianity to the Akha people in Thailand is in the 19th century. The Akha Villages traditionally practice Akhazah, which is...
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Akha Bhagat (commonly known as Akho; c. 1591 – c. 1656) or Akha Rahiyadas Soni was a mediaeval Gujarati poet who wrote in the tradition of the Bhakti...
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Hill tribe (Thailand) (category CS1 Thai-language sources (th))
The Akha speak a language in the Lolo/Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language group but have no traditional written language. Although many Akha, especially...
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Black Speech (redirect from Black Speech language)
the Black Speech to invent two phrases: Gû kîbum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha gûm-ishi ashi gurum. ("No life in coldness, in darkness. Here in void, only...
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Southern Ngwi languages, also known as the Hanoish or Hanish languages, constitute a branch of the Loloish languages that includes Akha and Hani. The...
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Ha-Ya language (see Hani languages). Hsiu (2018) classifies Muda as an Akha language containing a Bisoid substratum, with the substrate language being...
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Matthew McDaniel (category Akha)
claims are missionary efforts to rewrite Akha history and eradicate their culture. This includes a language and oral history, which he says are critical...
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Mutual intelligibility (redirect from Mutually intelligible language)
June 2021. "Ausbau and Abstand languages". ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Katsura, M. (1973). "Phonemes of the Alu Dialect of Akha". Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics...
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The Khoisan languages (/ˈkɔɪsɑːn/ KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph...
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AHK may stand for: AutoHotkey, a programming language Air Hong Kong, ICAO airline designator Akha language of China and Myanmar, ISO 639-3 code Allied...
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decades attempts are being made for revival. Nepal Lipi, also known as Nepal Akha, emerged in the 10th century. Over the centuries, a number of variants of...
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Southern Loloish language of the border region of China, Thailand, and Myanmar. They are also referred to by other Akha groups as the Akhə Akha. Speakers live...
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Micha (50,000), Lahu (600,000), Jinuo (21,000), etc. Southern Loloish: Akha–Hani, Phunoi–Bisu, Pholo and ’Ugong (aberrant; removed in Bradley 1997) Southeastern...
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group of languages. Luma speakers consider themselves to be distinct from Akha. There are two dialects, Luma proper (also called Luma Pala) and Luma Eushi...
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Hindko (redirect from Hindku language)
instances include: before other consonants in Kohati (/ɑːxdɑː/ 'saying' versus /ɑːkhɑː/ 'said'), in the middle or end of words in Peshawari (/nɪɣʊl/ 'swallow (verb)')...
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four languages use the Roman alphabet through spelling introduced by Christian missionaries in the twentieth century. The four languages are: Akha (or...
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Aka (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
Search for "aka" on Wikipedia. Akas (disambiguation) Akka (disambiguation) Akha (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Aka All pages with...
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(or preferably Chabu; also called Mikeyir) is an endangered language and likely language isolate spoken by about 400 former hunter-gatherers in southwestern...
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home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family...
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Lahu people (category Articles containing Lahu-language text)
Bawfa (Shanised) Hkahka: (known only to Bradley's Akha informants) Panai (known only to Bradley's Akha informants) Divergent Lahu Na dialects Kaishin: (Chinese...
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Lancang Lahu Autonomous County (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
population are of Lahu ethnicity, and Lahu language is one of the official languages in the county. The Akha language, whose speakers are officially classified...
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Tatsuo Nishida (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
アカ語の音素体系: タイ国北部における山地民アカ族の言語の記述的研究 [A Preliminary Report on the Akha Language ―A Language of a Hill Tribe in Northern Thailand]. 音声科学研究 Studia phonologica...
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Laos (redirect from Languages of Laos)
account for about 10% of the population. The official language is Lao, a language of the Tai-Kadai language family. More than half of the population speaks...
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Lahu (autonym: Ladhof [lɑ˥˧xo˩]) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lahu people of China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos. It is widely used...
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