Yao is a Bantu language in Africa with approximately two million speakers in Malawi, and half a million each in Tanzania and Mozambique. There are also...

The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia...

Badong Yao (Chinese: 八垌瑶语) is an unclassified Sinitic language spoken by the Yao people in Xinning County, Hunan province, China. Badong Yao is currently...

Younuo Kiong Nai Lakkja language (a Tai–Kadai language) Chinese about 500,000 Yao speak Chinese dialects In addition to China, Yao also live in northern...

Mienic or Yao languages are spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Some of the Yao peoples speak Hmongic languages (Miao); these...

Vietnam Yao languages spoken by the Yao Yao people (East Africa), people of south-central Africa Yao language, a Bantu language spoken by the Yao people...

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...

Nuoxi Yao (Chinese: 𦰡溪瑶话), or Nuoxihua 𦰡溪话, is a Kam–Sui language of Nuoxi Township, Dongkou County, Hunan Province, China. Even though they are classified...

(PHM), also known as Proto-Miao–Yao (PMY; Chinese: 原始苗瑶语), is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hmong–Mien languages. Lower-level reconstructions include...

Southern Kam is more conservative. Language varieties closely related to or part of Kam include Cao Miao and Naxi Yao. A northern Pinghua variety called...

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born 12 September 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of...

Yao (Jaoi, Yaoi, Yaio, Anacaioury) is an extinct Cariban language of Trinidad and French Guiana, attested in a single 1640 word list recorded by Joannes...

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 of...

The Yao people (or WaYao) are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group living at the southern end of Lake Malawi. They played an important role in the...

(such as Hmong, Hmu, and Xong). Hmongic languages also include various languages spoken by non-Mienic-speaking Yao people, such as Pa-Hng, Bunu, Jiongnai...

Pingdi Yao (平地瑶), also known as the Bidi (比滴) in the Shangong Yao language, and the Gan (干) in the Guoshan Yao language, is a subgroup of Yao people in...

constituent group of the Yao peoples), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and, more recently, the United States in diaspora. Like other Mien languages, it is tonal and monosyllabic...

last remaining speaking of Yangchun Pai Yao, Yangchun Pai Yao is a previously unidentified distinct language that can either be considered to be a sister...

constituted a separate branch of the Miao–Yao family. Ratliff found it to be the most divergent Hmongic (Miao) language that she analyzed. This Bahengic branch...

Zhuang, Han, Yao. The Zhuang people accounted for 47.73%, Han people accounted for 36.12%, Yao people accounted for 15.89%. The Zhuang language of Lianshan...

Yao Chun-yao or Jack Yao (Chinese: 姚淳耀; pinyin: Yáo Chúnyào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iâu Sûn-iāu; born 29 October 1984) is a Taiwanese actor and television host....

Yao Yao may refer to: Choi Hyo-joo, born Yao Yao, Chinese-South Korean table tennis player Yuri Huang, stage name Yao Yao, Taiwanese artist Kuo Shu-yao...

Loloish language of Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. The Lewu are officially classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Yao people. According...

kichwa na kukohoa na kiuno' (the disease of head and coughing and spine), Yao: 'chipindupindu' (disease from seeking to make a profit in wartime), Otjiherero:...

speakers of the Hmongic languages belong to the Miao. For example, the speakers of the Bunu and Bahengic languages are designated as the Yao, and the speakers...

Emperor Yao (simplified Chinese: 尧; traditional Chinese: 堯; pinyin: Yáo; Wade–Giles: Yao2; traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BCE) was a legendary Chinese ruler...

languages are a Hmongic (Miao) language branch spoken in Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou in China. Its speakers are officially classified as ethnic Yao but...

language of the Samaná Peninsula died out in the 16th century, while the Yao language survived in Trinidad and French Guiana, recorded in a single 1640 word...

2000; Chen Qiguang 2013). Chen, Qiguang 陈其光 (2013). Miáo Yáo yǔwén 苗瑶语文 [Miao and Yao Language] (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe...

Yeheni (爷贺尼; Pingdi Yao 平地瑶) is an unclassified Sinitic language spoken by the Yao people in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan. It is spoken in Taoxu...