Yangchun Pai Yao language

Yangchun Pai Yao is an extinct Mienic language of Yangchun, Guangdong, China. It is unclassified within Mienic, and is likely a sister branch to Dzao Min.^[1]

Yangchun Pai Yao
Native to	China
Region	Yangchun, Guangdong
Ethnicity	Yao
Extinct	Effectively extinct, one elderly partial speaker remaining as of 2019
Language family	Hmong–Mien Mienic Yangchun Pai Yao
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	yang1310

Documentation

The 1996 Yangchun County Gazetteer (阳春县志) has just over a dozen Yangchun Pai Yao words that were transcribed in Chinese characters. According to the gazetteer, there were 13 semi-speakers remaining in the 1990s.^[2] Hsiu (2023) reported that the language was extinct in 2019, with only one elderly rememberer able to provide a few dozen words.^[1]