Lingling (Chinese: Ling hua 伶话 ''Línghuà'' or Lingling hua; Lingling: ') is an unclassified mixed
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
dialect. It is spoken by 20,000 ethnic
Miao Miao may refer to:
* Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China
* Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages
* Miao (Unicode ...
in
Longsheng County,
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
. It is only spoken within the community; with outsiders,
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese language spoken in much of Southwest China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the northe ...
is spoken.
He (2009) covers the Linghua dialect of Taiping (太平村), Pingdeng Township (平等乡), Longsheng County, Guangxi.
References
*He Danpeng
丹鵬 2009
廣西龍勝伶話語音的歷史層次研究 'Study of the Longsheng (Guangxi) Linghua phonology and its historical strata'' Ph.D. dissertation. City University of Hong Kong.
*''Ming studies'', 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1990
Chinese-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of China
Hmongic languages
Mixed languages
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