• 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...
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    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...
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  • Proto-Hlai is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages. Proto-Hlai reconstructions include those of Matisoff (1988), Thurgood (1991), Wu (2000)...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Róng. Other languages with proposed Austroasiatic substrata are: Jiamao, based on evidence from the register system of Jiamao, a Hlai language (Thurgood...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles with text in Berber languages)
    Zulu, and Asian languages, such as Chukchi, some Yue dialects like Taishanese, the Hlai languages of Hainan, and several Formosan languages and dialects...
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    Voiced labiodental nasal (category Articles containing Hlai-language text)
    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]...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Hainan people (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Tanka, the Hlai, etc. Most Hainam Han people were originally fishers from nearby later settled in the island of Hainan, while the Lingaoese, Hlai, Tanka invaded...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    Hainan (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
    Hlai, a Kra–Dai-speaking ethnic group, are native to the island and compose 15% of the population. Their native languages include the Hlai languages....
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  • "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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  • 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...
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    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....
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  • 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...
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  • as Hainanese and Standard Chinese, Tai–Kadai languages such as the Hlai languages, and Hmong–Mien languages such as Kim Mun. if a voiced pre-initial is...
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    smaller languages, which together with the Northwestern Tai and Lao-Phutai languages, form the Southwestern branch of Tai languages. The Tai languages are...
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  • also a Malayo-Polynesian migration to Hainan; Blench (2016) notes that both Hlai and Austronesian peoples use the foot-braced backstrap loom as well. Below...
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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...
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  • of Proto-Hlai. Ph.D. dissertation. Tucson: Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Blust, Robert A. 2009. The Austronesian Languages. Canberra:...
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  • Battle of Hainan Island (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
    indigenous Hlai people of the southern interior mountains by occupying Hlai territory and demanding materiel support. In July 1943, the Hlai – led by Wang...
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    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...
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  • (2009) Proto-Hlai: Norquest (2007) Proto-Kra: Ostapirat (2000) Distribution of Sino-Tibetan languages Distribution of Kra–Dai languages Distribution of...
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  • Proto-Kra–Dai Proto-Kra (list) Proto-Kam–Sui (list) Proto-Tai (list) Proto-Hlai (list) Proto-Sino-Tibetan Proto-Sinitic Proto-Min Proto-Tibeto-Burman (list)...
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    Utsuls (category Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text)
    that the surviving Utsat were genetically much closer to the indigenous Hlai people than to the Cham and other mainland southeast Asian populations. The...
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  • to: Yuanmen Committee, Tancheng, Pingtan County. Yuanmen language, one of the Hlai languages. Yuanmen Township (元门乡), Hainan. This disambiguation page...
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    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...
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