Blang language explained

Blang
Also Known As:	Pulang
Region:	China, Burma
Ethnicity:	Blang
Date:	1994–2000
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austro-Asiatic
Fam2:	Khasi–Palaungic
Fam3:	Palaungic
Fam4:	Waic
Dia1:	Phang
Dia2:	Kem Degne
Lc1:	blr
Ld1:	Blang
Lc2:	stu
Ld2:	Samtao
Linglist:	stu
Lingname:	Samtao
Glotto:	blan1242
Glottoname:	Blang
Glotto2:	samt1238
Glottoname2:	Samtao
Lingua:	46-DBA-c

Blang (Pulang) is the language of the Blang people of China and Myanmar.

Dialects

Samtao of Myanmar is a dialect of Blang language.^[1]

In Yunnan province of China, Blang dialects include the following:

• Bulang 布朗; representative dialect: Xinman'e 新曼俄, Bulangshan District 布朗山区, Menghai County^[2]
• A'erwa 阿尔佤 (Awa 阿佤); representative dialect: Guanshuang 关双, Mengman Township 勐满镇, Menghai County^[3]

Phonology

Source:^[4]

!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!Glottal

Nasal		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Stop		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/
Approximant		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Trill			pronounced as /link/

! colspan="2"

Front	Back
unrounded				rounded
Close	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Close-mid	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Open-mid					pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Open	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/

Blang also has two tones - high and low.

See also

• Wa language

Sources

• Book: Li, Daoyong 李道勇 . Bùlǎngyǔ jiǎnzhì . Nie . Xizhen 聂锡珍 . Qiu . Efeng 邱锷锋 . 1986 . Minzu chubanshe . Beijing . zh . zh:布朗語简志 . A Sketch of Blang.
• Harper . Jero Alan . Phonological Descriptions of Plang spoken in Man Noi, La Gang, and Bang Deng Villages (in China) . 2009 . MA . Payap University . en . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170809082609/http://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Jerod_Harper_Thesis.pdf . 2017-08-09.

External links

• Some links to Wa-related Internet sites
• http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
• http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9BBE-B@view Samtao in RWAAI Digital Archive
• Recordings of 'Pang' are available in the Xuan Guan Collection of Kaipuleohone archive

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180922081933/http://sealang.net/sala/mk-class.htm . 2018-09-22 . 2012-04-22.
2. Web site: Měnghǎi Xiàn Bùlǎngshān Xiāng Měngáng Cūnwěihuì Xīnmàné Zìráncūn . zh:勐海县布朗山乡勐昂村委会新曼峨自然村 . Xinman'e Natural Village, Mengang Village Committee, Bulangshan Township, Menghai County . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305044658/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=140952 . 2016-03-05 . 2013-03-07 . ynszxc.gov.cn . zh.
3. Web site: Měnghǎi Xiàn Měngmǎn Zhèn Guānshuāng Cūnwěihuì Guānshuāng . zh:勐海县勐满镇关双村委会关双 . Guanshuang, Guanshuang Village Committee, Mengman Town, Menghai County . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305050605/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=178019 . 2016-03-05 . 2013-03-07 . ynszxc.gov.cn . zh.
4. Block, Karen Louise. 1994. Discourse Grammar of First Person Narrative in Plang. (MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington).