Macro-Bai languages

Macro-Bai
Geographic
distribution:		 Guizhou, China
Linguistic classification:

Sino-Tibetan

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: macr1275[1]

Macro-Bai is a grouping of the Bai languages, spoken in the Chinese province of Yunnan, with the recently discovered Caijia language spoken in western Guizhou. Longjia and Luren (also from western Guizhou) may be closely related to Caijia, and therefore also be part of Macro-Bai.[2][3] Bai has over a million speakers, but Longjia and Luren may both be extinct, and Caijia is highly endangered, with approximately 1,000 speakers. The Qixingmin people of Weining County, Guizhou may have also spoken a Macro-Bai language.

Waxiang, spoken in northwestern Hunan province, China, appears to share some words with Macro-Bai languages.[4][5] However, linguists studying Chinese classify Waxiang as a divergent Chinese variety.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Macro-Bai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer [贵州省志. 民族志] (2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House [貴州民族出版社].
  3. ↑ "白族家园-讲义寨". 222.210.17.136. 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  4. ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_8967627a0101rnbv.html
  5. ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_8967627a0101du6j.html
  6. ↑ Baxter, William; Sagart, Laurent (2014). Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5.
  7. ↑ Kurpaska, Maria (2010). Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of "The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects". Walter de Gruyter. p. 73. ISBN 978-3-11-021914-2.
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