Dzao Min language

Dzao Min
Ba Pai
Native to China
Native speakers
60,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bpn
Glottolog dzao1238[2]

Dzao Min (Chinese: 藻敏), is a Hmong–Mien language of China. Mao (2004:306) reports a total of more than 60,000 speakers in Liannan County and Yangshan County of Guangdong, and in Yizhang County of Hunan. The speakers from Bapai, Guangdong are also called Bapai Yao (八排瑶族).

Distribution

The Chenzhou Prefecture Gazetteer (1996) reports that there are 1,200 "Bapai Yao" or "Zao Min" (藻敏) in Huangjiapan Village 黄家畔村, Mangshan Township 莽山乡, Yizhang County, Hunan. They are reported to have migrated from Taipingdong 太平洞, Chengjia District 称架区, Yangshan County, Guangdong in the 16th century.

Long Guoyi (2011) covers the six Zao Min dialects of Daping 大坪, Junliao 军寮, Mangshan 莽山, Nan'gang 南岗, Panshi 盘石, and Youling 油岭.[3] Long reports that other than in Liannan County, small pockets of Zao Min speakers are located in:

References

  1. Dzao Min at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dzao Min". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 龙国贻 [Long Guoyi] (2011). 藻敏瑶语语音研究.


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