• Badong Yao (Chinese: 八垌瑶语) is an unclassified Sinitic language spoken by the Yao people in Xinning County, Hunan province, China. Badong Yao is currently...
    6 KB (212 words) - 23:45, 12 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hmong–Mien languages
    languages such as She Chinese, Laba, Lingling, Maojia, Badong Yao, various Lowland Yao languages including Yeheni, Shaozhou Tuhua, and various Pinghua...
    13 KB (1,530 words) - 16:44, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yao people
    Chenxi; speak a Hmongic language. Badong Yao 八峒瑶 (Batong Yao 八垌瑶): in Xinning. The Badong Yao speak an endangered Sinitic language. It is spoken in the villages...
    43 KB (4,634 words) - 03:00, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hunan
    Hunan (category Articles with Chinese-language sources (zh))
    Hm Nai language, Pa-Hng language, Badong Yao language Yongzhou: Mien language, Biao Min language Chenzhou: Dzao Min language Around 5,000 Uyghurs live...
    82 KB (6,101 words) - 18:01, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hmongic languages
    (such as Hmong, Hmu, and Xong). Hmongic languages also include various languages spoken by non-Mienic-speaking Yao people, such as Pa-Hng, Bunu, Jiongnai...
    28 KB (2,346 words) - 01:51, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Languages of China
    languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
    40 KB (3,501 words) - 00:05, 15 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chinese language
    traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese...
    85 KB (8,853 words) - 06:47, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hakka Chinese
    Hakka Chinese (redirect from Hakka language)
    2014-10-12. Sagart (2002). Deng, Xiaohua 邓晓华 (1999). "Kèjiāhuà gēn Miáo-Yáo-Zhuàng-Dòngyǔ de Guānxì wèntí" 客家话跟苗瑶壮侗语的关系问题 (PDF). Mínzú yǔwén 民族语文 (in...
    23 KB (2,077 words) - 22:33, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taiwanese Mandarin
    Retrieved 13 March 2022. Yao, Rongsong (June 1992). 臺灣現行外來語的問題 [Survey on the Problem of Contemporary Loan Words in the Languages Spoken in Taiwan]. Journal...
    107 KB (11,511 words) - 06:55, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Standard Chinese
    archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 12 February 2011 Yao, Qian (September 2014), "Analysis of Computer Terminology Translation Differences...
    78 KB (7,768 words) - 12:21, 15 April 2024
  • chief), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Kosaka, Ryuichi (2002). "On the affiliation of Miao-Yao and Kadai: Can we posit the...
    14 KB (1,065 words) - 02:47, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sinitic languages
    The Sinitic languages (simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of...
    63 KB (6,022 words) - 05:17, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of varieties of Chinese
    The following is a list of Sinitic languages and their dialects. For a traditional dialectological overview, see also varieties of Chinese. "Chinese"...
    39 KB (915 words) - 19:27, 2 April 2024
  • The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4,500 years, while examples of the writing system that...
    12 KB (1,486 words) - 16:07, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southwestern Mandarin
    twelve dialect groups in the Language Atlas of China: Cheng–Yu 成渝: Chengdu and Chongqing Dianxi 滇西 (western Yunnan): Yao–Li 姚里 and Bao–Lu 保潞 clusters...
    13 KB (1,051 words) - 23:42, 10 April 2024
  • Dungan (/ˈdʊŋɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋɡən/) is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related...
    28 KB (1,864 words) - 13:37, 22 April 2024
  • Nüshu (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
    script derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among ethnic Yao women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China before going...
    23 KB (2,680 words) - 04:17, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mandarin Chinese
    Richards (2003), pp. 138–139. Ramsey (1987), p. 21. Ramsey (1987), pp. 215–216. Yao, Qian (September 2014). "Analysis of Computer Terminology Translation Differences...
    84 KB (8,685 words) - 23:13, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hokkien
    Hokkien (redirect from Hokkien language)
    HOK-ee-en, US also /ˈhoʊkiɛn/ HOH-kee-en) is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern...
    122 KB (10,766 words) - 00:51, 23 April 2024
  • Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the...
    29 KB (3,261 words) - 04:02, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sichuanese dialects
    by many Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and other ethnic minority groups as a second language. Sichuanese is more similar to Standard Chinese than southeastern Chinese...
    32 KB (2,559 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Min Chinese
    Min Chinese (redirect from Min language)
    BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages with about 70 million native speakers. These languages are spoken in Fujian province as well as by...
    34 KB (3,560 words) - 17:44, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
    Chinese: 官话; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'official speech') was the common spoken language of administration of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties...
    23 KB (2,005 words) - 08:22, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Varieties of Chinese
    There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible...
    97 KB (9,003 words) - 21:06, 12 April 2024
  • first Shanghainese pop record Shanghai Yao (上海謠, "Shanghai Ballad"). In December 2021, the Shanghainese-language romantic comedy movie Myth of Love (愛情神話)...
    81 KB (6,984 words) - 10:58, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fuzhou dialect
    The Fuzhou language (simplified Chinese: 福州话; traditional Chinese: 福州話; pinyin: Fúzhōuhuà, FR: Hók-ciŭ-uâ IPA: [huʔ˨˩ tsiu˥˧ ua˨˦˨]), also Foochow, Hokchew...
    65 KB (5,187 words) - 13:28, 4 April 2024
  • Chinese honorifics (category CS1 Chinese (China)-language sources (zh-cn))
    (Chinese: 敬語; pinyin: Jìngyǔ) and honorific language are words, word constructs, and expressions in the Chinese language that convey self-deprecation, social...
    3 KB (399 words) - 10:41, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yue Chinese
    Yue (Cantonese pronunciation: [jyːt̚˨]) is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong...
    37 KB (4,098 words) - 05:42, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinghua
    Pinghua (redirect from Pinghua language)
    in a some places in Hunan, such as Tongdao. Younian dialect (ethnically Yao) Southern Pinghua (Guìnán 桂南平话) is spoken in southern Guangxi, around the...
    12 KB (1,121 words) - 01:15, 14 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gan Chinese
    Gan Chinese (redirect from Gan language)
    Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian. Gan is a member of the Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Hakka is the closest Chinese variety to Gan...
    19 KB (1,785 words) - 14:14, 23 April 2024