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    The HmongMien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast...
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  • Proto-HmongMien (PHM), also known as Proto-Miao–Yao (PMY; Chinese: 原始苗瑶语), is the reconstructed ancestor of the HmongMien languages. Lower-level reconstructions...
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    plausible by some scholars, but remains unproven. Additionally, HmongMien languages are included by some linguists, and even Japanese was speculated...
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  • Proto-Polynesian language Proto-Austroasiatic language Proto-HmongMien language Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Blust, Robert; Australian National University. Pacific...
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    Austric languages Proto-Hlai language Proto-HmongMien language Proto-Kam–Sui language Proto-Kra language Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Proto-Tai language Sino-Austronesian...
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  • Proto-Mienic or Proto-Yao (Chinese: 原始瑶语) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Mienic languages. Reconstructions of Proto-Mienic (Proto-Yao) include those...
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    language called Lakkia. Other Yao peoples speak various Sinitic (Chinese) language varieties. Mienic is one of the primary branches of the HmongMien...
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    the HmongMien languages are descended from a population that is distantly related to those who now speak the Mon-Khmer languages. The time of Proto-Hmong-Mien...
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  • of Proto-HmongMien, Proto-Hmongic, and Proto-Mienic. Below are some rime mergers in Proto-Hmongic, in which the first part of the Proto-Hmong-Mien rime...
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    which is lost in most other Hmongic languages, since they tend to preserve only the first part of Proto-Hmong-Mien diphthongs. Ratliff notes that the position...
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  • (list) Proto-Hlai (list) Proto-Sino-Tibetan Proto-Sinitic Proto-Min Proto-Tibeto-Burman (list) Proto-Loloish Proto-Karenic Proto-HmongMien (list) Proto-Hmongic...
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  • Cantonese) Classical Chinese Austroasiatic languages Vietnamese Khmer Kra-Dai languages Thai Lao Hmong-Mien languages Hmong Maybrat Mixtec Sango Yoruba Haitian...
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  • category BC. Austro-Tai languages Old Chinese Proto-Austronesian language Proto-HmongMien language Proto-Austroasiatic language Sagart, Laurent. 2019....
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  • (PHM) Pretty Hate Machine, the debut album from Nine Inch Nails Proto-HmongMien language Pure homopolar motor, is an electric motor not requiring brushes...
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    Nanman (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Ratliff (2010), while Mien is reconstructed as *mjænA in Proto-Mienic (see Proto-HmongMien language). The Man were described in the Book of Rites as one...
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  • Biao Min, or Biao-Jiao Mien, is a HmongMien language of China. The two varieties, Biao Min and Jiaogong Mian, are evidently not mutually intelligible...
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    Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, HmongMien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic...
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    languages) and Tibeto-Burman branches, a common origin of the non-Sinitic languages has never been demonstrated. The Kra–Dai and HmongMien languages...
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  • (PDF). Journal of Language Relationship. Retrieved 4 August 2019. van Driem, George. (2011). Rice and the Austroasiatic and Hmong-Mien homelands. In N....
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  • various recently reconstructed proto-languages of Southeast Asia. Distribution of Sino-Tibetan Distribution of HmongMien Distribution of Kra–Dai Distribution...
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    family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Bouyei, the Dai, the Dong, and the Hlai (Li people); 9 official ethnicities. The HmongMien family: 3 official...
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    closer to Borean than to other major language super-phyla) Austro-Tai Austronesian Kra-Dai (Tai-Kadai, Daic) Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) Austroasiatic Ainu (?)...
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    Old Chinese (redirect from Proto-Chinese)
    from proto-HmongMien *jaŋA, *luʔ (稻 dào) 'unhulled rice' from proto-HmongMien *mblauA. Other words are believed to have been borrowed from languages to...
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  • Martha Ratliff (category Linguists of HmongMien languages)
    University. She is a leading specialist in HmongMien languages and also notable for her reconstruction of Proto-HmongMien. Ratliff earned a B.A. in English from...
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  • Kra-Dai Hmong-Mien Sino-Tibetan Below is a comparison of basic vocabulary items for proto-languages of all 5 East Asian language families. Sources Proto-Tibeto-Burman:...
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    also possibly Austroasiatic, Austronesian and Hmong-Mien.[full citation needed] The proto-Kra–Dai language has been hypothesized to originate in the Lower...
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    Austronesian languages, and in some proposals also the Kra–Dai languages and the HmongMien languages. Several lexical resemblances are found between the Hmong-Mien...
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  • Standard Chinese, Tai–Kadai languages such as the Hlai languages, and HmongMien languages such as Kim Mun. if a voiced pre-initial is present, its voicing...
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  • Biao Mon (autonym: bjau31 moːn31) is a Mienic language of Guangxi province, China. It is spoken in Lipu, Mengshan, Pingle, and Zhaoping counties in Guangxi...
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    following contact with HmongMien and Sinitic. An extended version of Austro-Tai was hypothesized by Benedict who added the Japonic languages to the proposal...
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