Bahengic languages

Bahengic
Pahungic
Ethnicity:	Yao
Geographic distribution:	China, Vietnam
Linguistic classification:	Hmong–Mien Hmongic Bahengic
Subdivisions:	Pa-Hng (Baheng) Yuno (Younuo) Hm Nai (Wunai)
Glottolog:	None

The Bahengic (Pahungic) languages are a divergent branch of the Miao (Hmongic) languages. Speakers are among the ethnic Bunu: Miao-speaking Yao people of China.

Pa-Hng (Baheng) has long been recognized as a divergent language. Benedict (1986) argued that one of its dialects constituted a separate branch of the Miao–Yao family, and Ratliff (2010) found it to be the most divergent Hmongic language that she analyzed.^[1] Mao & Li (1997) determined that two poorly known languages are closely related to Pa-Hng, though none are mutually intelligible:^[2]

Bahengic

• Yuno (Younuo)
• Baheng–Wunai
  • Hm-Nai (Wunai)
  • Pa-Hng (Baheng)

References

1. Ratliff, Martha. 2010. Hmong–Mien language history. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.
2. 毛宗武, 李云兵 / Mao Zongwu, Li Yunbing. 1997. 巴哼语研究 / Baheng yu yan jiu (A Study of Baheng [Pa-Hng]). Shanghai: 上海远东出版社 / Shanghai yuan dong chu ban she.