Kiong Nai language explained

Kiong Nai language should not be confused with Kiong language.

Kiong Nai
Nativename:	Jiongnai
States:	China
Region:	Jinxiu County, Guangxi
Date:	1999
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Hmong-Mien
Fam2:	Hmongic
Fam3:	Sheic
Fam4:	Kiong Nai–She?^[1] ^[2]
Iso3:	pnu
Glotto:	jion1236
Glottorefname:	Jiongnai Bunu
Notice:	IPA

Kiong Nai (or Jiongnai,) is a divergent Hmongic (Miao) language spoken in Jinxiu County, Guangxi, China. The speakers' autonym is pronounced pronounced as /[kjɔŋ33 nai33]/ or pronounced as /[kjaŋ31 nɛ31]/; pronounced as /kjɔŋ33/ means 'mountain', while pronounced as /nai33/ means 'people'. Mao & Li (2002) believe it to be most closely related to She.

Dialects

Mao & Li (2002) divide Jiongnai into two major dialects.

• Longhua (龙华), spoken in Longhua (龙华村) of Changdong Township (长垌乡)
• Liuxiang (六巷), spoken in Liuxiang Township (六巷乡)

Jiongnai is spoken in the following villages in three townships of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi.

• Liuxiang Township (六巷乡): Liuxiang (六巷), Mengtou (门头), Dadeng (大凳), Huangsang (黄桑), Xincun (新村), and Gupu (古蒲)
• Changdong Township (长垌乡): Longhua (龙华), Nanzhou (南州), and Dajing (大进)
• Luoxiang Township (罗香乡): Zhanger (丈二), Liutuan (六团), and Luodan (罗丹)

Sources

• Book: Mao, Zongwu 毛宗武 . Jiǒngnàiyǔ yánjiū . Li . Yunbing 李云兵 . 2002 . Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe . Beijing . zh . zh:炯奈语硏究 . A Study of Jiongnai.
• Book: Meng, Chaoji 蒙朝吉 . Yáozú Bùnǔyǔ fāngyán yánjiū . 2001 . Minzu chubanshe . Beijing . zh . zh:瑤族布努语方言研究 . A Study of the Bunu Dialects of the Yao People.
• Ratliff . Martha . 2003 . Review of Mao Zongwu and Li Yunbing. 2001. Jiǒngnàiyǔ Yánjiū [A study of Jiongnai]. Beijing: Central Nationalities University Press. 322 pp. ]. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area . en . 26 . 1 . 119–121.

External links

• Longhua and Liuxiang Jiongnai basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

Notes and References

1. Hsiu, Andrew. 2015. The classification of Na Meo, a Hmong-Mien language of Vietnam. Paper presented at SEALS 25, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2. Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Preliminary classification of Hmongic languages