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Gam Language
The Kam or Gam language (), also known as Dong (), is a Kam–Sui language spoken by the Dong people. ''Ethnologue'' distinguishes three Kam varieties as separate but closely related languages. Demographics Southern Dong Almost 1.5 million speakers of Southern Dong were counted in the 1990 language census, from a total of 2.5 million people in the Dong ethnic group. The Southern Dong live primarily in Rongjiang, Jinping, Liping, Zhenyuan, and Congjiang counties in Guizhou Province; Longsheng, Sanjiang, and Rongshui counties in northeastern Guangxi; and Tongdao County in Hunan Province. Two Dong villages are also located in northern Vietnam, although only one individual in Vietnam is still able to speak Dong. Dialects The Kam language can be divided into two major subdivisions: Southern Kam and Northern Kam.Yang Tongyin and Jerold A. Edmondson (2008). "Kam." In Diller, Anthony, Jerold A. Edmondson, and Yongxian Luo ed. ''The Tai–Kadai Languages''. Routledge Language Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County
Sanjiang Dong people, Dong Autonomous County (; Standard Zhuang: ; Kam language, Southern Dong: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is a region traditionally inhabited by the Dong people, bordering the prefecture-level divisions of Qiandongnan (Guizhou) to the north, Huaihua (Hunan) to the northeast and Guilin to the west. It has an area of and a population of 297,244. Administrative divisions Sanjiang County is divided into 6 towns, 6 townships and 3 ethnic townships: ;towns *Guyi Town 古宜镇 *Doujiang Town 斗江镇 *Danzhou Town 丹洲镇 *Bajiang Town 八江镇 *Linxi Town 林溪镇 *Dudong Town 独峒镇 ;townships *Meilin Township 梅林乡 *Yangxi Township 洋溪乡 *Liangkou Township 良口乡 *Laobao Township 老堡乡 *Heping Township 和平乡 *Chengcun Township 程村乡 ;ethnic townships *Tongle Miao Ethnic Township 同乐苗族乡 *Fulu Miao Ethnic Township 富禄苗族乡 *Gaoji Yao Ethnic Township 高基瑶族乡 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sansui County
Sansui County () is a county in eastern Guizhou province, China, bordering Hunan province to the east. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and is one of the province's eastern gateways. Administrative divisions Sansui County is divided into seven towns and two townships: Towns * Bagong 八弓镇 * Tailie 台烈镇 * Wazhai 瓦寨镇 * Tonglin 桐林镇 * Xuedong 雪洞镇 * Changji 长吉镇 * Liangshang 良上镇 Townships * Gunma 滚马乡 * Kuanchang 款场乡 Geography and climate Sansui County is located in the east of Guizhou and the northeast of Qiandongnan Prefecture away from the provincial capital of Guiyang and away from the prefecture seat of Kaili. It ranges in latitude from 26° 47' to 27° 04' N and in longitude from 108° 32' to 109° 04' E, spanning a total area of . Bordering counties are Xinhuang (Hunan) to the northeast, Tianzhu and Jianhe to the southeast and southwest, and Zhenyuan to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianzhu County, Guizhou
Tianzhu County () is a county in eastern Guizhou province, China, bordering Hunan province to the north, east, and southeast. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Administrative divisions Tianzhu County is divided into 3 subdistricts, 11 towns A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ... and 2 townships: ;subdistricts *Fengcheng 凤城街道 *Bangdong 邦洞街道 *Shexue 社学街道 ;towns *Pingdi 坪地镇 *Lantian 兰田镇 *Wengdong 瓮洞镇 *Gaoniang 高酿镇 *Shidong 石洞镇 *Yuankou 远口镇 *Chachu 坌处镇 *Baishi 白市镇 *Duma 渡马镇 *Zhulin 竹林镇 *Jiangdong 江东镇 ;townships *Zhuxi 注溪乡 *Dihu 地湖乡 Climate References Counties of Qiandongnan Prefecture {{Guizhou-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjiang County
Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County (; Standard Zhuang: ; Southern Dong: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is a region traditionally inhabited by the Dong people, bordering the prefecture-level divisions of Qiandongnan (Guizhou) to the north, Huaihua (Hunan) to the northeast and Guilin to the west. It has an area of and a population of 297,244. Administrative divisions Sanjiang County is divided into 6 towns, 6 townships and 3 ethnic townships: ;towns *Guyi Town 古宜镇 *Doujiang Town 斗江镇 *Danzhou Town 丹洲镇 *Bajiang Town 八江镇 *Linxi Town 林溪镇 *Dudong Town 独峒镇 ;townships *Meilin Township 梅林乡 *Yangxi Township 洋溪乡 *Liangkou Township 良口乡 *Laobao Township 老堡乡 *Heping Township 和平乡 *Chengcun Township 程村乡 ;ethnic townships *Tongle Miao Ethnic Township 同乐苗族乡 *Fulu Miao Ethnic Township 富禄苗族乡 *Gaoji Yao Ethnic Township 高基瑶族乡 Transportation * China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longsheng County
Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County ( zh, s=龙胜各族自治县, t=龍勝各族自治縣, p=Lóngshèng Gèzú Zìzhìxiàn; ; usually referred to as "Longsheng County" ) is a county in the northeast of Guangxi, China, bordering Hunan, Hunan Province to the north. It is under the administration of Guilin, Guilin City. The county covers , and as of 2019 it had a census registered population of 186,000. The county has six towns and four townships under its jurisdiction, the county seat is the town of Longsheng, Guangxi, Longsheng. Administrative divisions As of 2020, Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County has six Towns of China, towns and four Townships of China, townships under its jurisdiction. The county seat is Longsheng, Guangxi, Longsheng Town. Geography Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County is located in northeastern Guangxi. Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County shares a border with Rong'an County and Sanjiang Dong Autonomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongjiang County
Rongjiang County () is a county in southeastern Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Administrative divisions Rongjiang County is divided into 9 towns, 4 townships and 6 ethnic townships. Guzhou Town is the county seat which houses the Rongjiang County Government and Rongjiang County Council. ;Ethnic Townships * Renli Shui Ethnic Township () * Sanjiang Shui Ethnic Township () * Dingwei Shui Ethnic Township () * Xinghua Shui Ethnic Township () * Shuiwei Shui Ethnic Township () * Tashi Yao and Shui Ethnic Township () Climate Sport In 2024, Rongjiang County became famous for its popular football league - The Village Super League. Transportation Road *S308, S202, S222, S221 Expressway * G76 * Yanhe–Rongjiang Expressway * Libo–Rongjiang Expressway Railway *Guiyang–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway Guiyang–Guangzhou high-speed railway, also known as the Guiguang HSR, is a high-speed railway l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tongdao Pinghua
The Tongdao Pinghua is a variety of Guibei Pinghua (桂北平话) influenced by Kam (Dong). It is spoken by about 25,000 people in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan, China (Shi 2015:137). Although Tongdao Pinghua speakers are classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Han, the speakers consider themselves to be a distinct ethnic group, and neither Han nor Kam.Peng Jianguo ��建国 2010湖南通道侗族“本地话”的语音系统及其归属 Journal of Yunmeng 云梦学刊, Vol. 31, No. 4. Names Tongdao Pinghua speakers call their own language ''Bendihua'' 本地话 (the name ''Bendihua'' () literally means 'native language'), although some speakers also refer to it as ''Jiangping'' 讲平. The Kam people refer to it as ', and the Yao ( Pa Hng speakers) refer to it as ''Luoyanhua'' (洛岩话; "Luoyan language"). Tongdao Pinghua speakers call themselves the ' people (我们人) (Shi 2015:137).Shi Lin ��林 2015. ''Three language varieties of the Hunan-Guizhou-Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinghua
Pinghua is a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in parts of Guangxi, with some speakers in Hunan. Pinghua is a trade language in some areas of Guangxi, spoken as a second language by speakers of Zhuang languages. Some speakers are officially classified as Zhuang, and many are genetically distinct from most other Han Chinese. The northern subgroup is centered on Guilin and the southern subgroup around Nanning. The Southern dialect has several notable features such as having four distinct checked tones, and using various loanwords from the Zhuang languages, such as the final particle '' wei'' for imperative sentences. History Historically, Pinghua is associated with the earliest Han Chinese migrants who entered Guangxi via Hunan in the 1st millennium AD. The name is said to derive from the Pingnan Jun (平南軍, "Pacify the South Army"), a Northern Song-era army led by Di Qing in the 11th century. Classification Language surveys in Guangxi during the 1950s recorded va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naxi Yao Language
Nuoxi Yao (), or Nuoxihua 𦰡溪话, is a Kam–Sui language of Nuoxi Township, Dongkou County, Hunan Province, China. Even though they are classified as ethnic Yao people by the Chinese government, the Nuoxi Yao speak a Kam–Sui language closely related to Dong. Shi (2015:132) considers Nuoxi Yao to have split off from Dong about 600 years. Names The Nuoxi Yao call themselves the '1See Proto-Tai language#Tones for an explanation of the tone codes. (Shi 2015:107) or '2 '1 (Shi 2015:125), and refer to their own language as '1 (Shi 2015:107). The town of Nuoxi (the first syllable is pronounced ''nuó'' in Mandarin (Shi 2015:107)) is pronounced in the local Hunanese dialect as '2 '1. Demographics Shi (2015:107) estimates a total of 2,500 speakers and 5,000 ethnic Yao in Nuoxi Township. According to the ''Shaoyang Prefecture Gazetteer'' (1997), language varieties closely related to Southern Kam are spoken in Nuoxi, Dongkou County (which had 4,280 ethnic Yao in 1982 (Chen 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifteenth-most populous country. One of two communist states in Southeast Asia, Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. Before the Han dynasty's invasion, Vietnam was marked by a vibrant mix of religion, culture, and social norms. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam, which were subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Vietnam
Northern Vietnam or '' Tonkin'' () is one of three geographical regions in Vietnam. It consists of three geographic sub-regions: the Northwest (Vùng Tây Bắc), the Northeast (Vùng Đông Bắc), and the Red River Delta (Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng). It is near China. Unlike tropical Central and Southern Vietnam, Northern Vietnam has a subtropical climate. It has a total area of about 109,942.9 km2. Its largest city Hanoi is now Vietnam's capital. Among the three geographical regions, the oldest is Northern Vietnam. Vietnamese culture originated in the Red River Delta and the Kinh Vietnamese eventually spread south into the Mekong Delta. Administration Northern Vietnam includes three administrative regions, which in turn comprises 25 First Tier units. Municipality (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) Of all 25 First Tier units, two are municipalities and 23 are provinces. See also * Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam * Regions of Vietnam The Vietna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
