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Hmongic language of China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bunu is a Hmongic language of southern China. Bunu speakers are classified as Yao by the People's Republic of China.
Meng (2001) lists the following language varieties for Bunu.[1]
The Shaoyang Prefecture Gazetteer (1997:533) reports that the Miao of Xinning County, Hunan, speak a Bunu-branch language.
The Yunnan Province Gazetteer (1989) reports that a Bunu dialect known as pu55 ʐa11 (布咋) is spoken by about 7,000 people in Guichao 归朝乡 and Dongbo 洞波瑶族乡 (including in Dadongzhai 大洞寨, Saxiangdong Village 三湘洞村[3]) townships of Funing County, Yunnan.
The following may be alternative names for speakers of Bunu languages.[4]
Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | pal. | plain | sib. | lat. | plain | lab. | pal. | |||||
Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | m̥ʲ | n̥ | ɲ̟̊ | ŋ̊ | ŋ̊ʷ | |||||
voiced | m | mʲ | n | ɲ̟ | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||||
Stop | voiceless | p | pʲ | t | ʈ | k | kʷ | kʲ | ||||
aspirated | pʰ | pʲʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | kʲʰ | |||||
prenasal | ᵐp | ᵐpʲ | ⁿt | ᶯʈ | ᵑk | ᵑkʷ | ᵑkʲ | |||||
prenasal asp. | ᵐpʰ | ᵐpʲʰ | ⁿtʰ | ᶯʈʰ | ᵑkʰ | ᵑkʷʰ | ||||||
Affricate | voiceless | tɬ | tɕ | |||||||||
aspirated | tɬʰ | tɕʰ | ||||||||||
prenasal | ⁿtθ | ⁿts | ⁿtɬ | ᶮtɕ | ||||||||
prenasal asp. | ⁿtθʰ | ⁿtsʰ | ⁿtɬʰ | ᶮtɕʰ | ||||||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | θ | s | ɬ | ʂ | ɕ | h | ||||
aspirated | θʰ | sʰ | ||||||||||
voiced | v | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ɦ | |||||||
Approximant | l |
Sounds /tɬ, tɬʰ, ⁿtɬ, ⁿtɬʰ/ may be pronounced as [pl, plʰ, ᵐpl, ᵐplʰ] in some areas.[10]
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