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Then Language
The Then language (also known as Yánghuáng 佯僙语 in Chinese; alternate spellings: Tʻen and Ten) is a Kam–Sui language spoken in Pingtang and Huishui counties, southern Guizhou. It is spoken by the Yanghuang 佯僙 people, many of whom are officially classified as Maonan by the Chinese government. Names The Yanghuang people called themselves ', except for the Yanghuang of Huishui County, Xiayou District , and Xiguan Shangmo , who called themselves ' (Bo 1997). According to the ''Guizhou Ethnic Gazetteer'' (2002:846),Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer ��州省志. 民族志(2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House ��州民族出版社 their autonyms include ' () and ' (). "Yanghuang" was mentioned in a Ming Dynasty record, the ''Dushi Fangyu Jiyao'' (). According to it, "the Man people of Sizhou are Yanghuang, Gelao, Muyao (Mulao), and Miaozhi (Miaozi). () Phonology Yanghuang of Kapu Township (卡蒲乡) has 71 consonants total, including those wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
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Pingtang County
Pingtang County () is a county in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It is a high mountain valley and is inhabited mainly by members of the Buyei and Miao ethnic minorities, who together make up 55% of the county's population. The county's area is 2,799.08 square km and at the 2010 Census its population was 228,560. The county's government is based in the town of Pinghu. The Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is located in the southwestern part of Pingtan County, near its Kedu and Tangbian Towns and Dongjia Township of the adjacent Luodian County. Administrative divisions Pingtang County is divided into 1 subdistrict, 9 towns and 1 ethnic township: ;subdistrict *Jinpen Subdistrict 金盆街道 ;towns *Pingzhou Town 平舟镇 *Yazhou Town 牙舟镇 *Tongzhou Town 通州镇 *Datang Town 大塘镇 *Kedu Town 克度镇 *Tangbian Town 塘边镇 *Jiacha Town 甲茶镇 *Zhemi Town 者密� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Guizhou
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Kam–Sui Languages
The Kam–Sui languages () are a branch of the Kra–Dai languages spoken by the Kam–Sui peoples. They are spoken mainly in eastern Guizhou, western Hunan, and northern Guangxi in southern China. Small pockets of Kam–Sui speakers are also found in northern Vietnam and Laos. Classification The Kam–Sui branch includes about a dozen languages. Solnit (1988) considers Lakkia and Biao languages to be sister branches of Kam–Sui, rather than part of Kam–Sui itself. The best known Kam–Sui languages are Dong (Kam), with over a million speakers, Mulam, Maonan, and Sui. Other Kam–Sui languages include Ai-Cham, Mak, and Tʻen, and Chadong, which is the most recently discovered Kam–Sui language. Yang (2000) considers Ai-Cham and Mak to be dialects of a single language. Thurgood (1988) Graham Thurgood (1988) presents the following tentative classification for the Kam–Sui branch. Chadong, a language that has been described only recently by Chinese linguist Jinfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Huishui County
Huishui () is a county of south-central Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. 61% of its 476,900 population are minorities, including Bouyei, Miao, Hui, Zhuang, Sui, Bai, and Maonan. In 1372 it was the seat of the historic Chengfan commandery ( 程番府). Within Guizhou it is noted for its orange cultivation. The gecko species Hemiphyllodactylus huishuiensis was first discovered in, and named after Huishui. A locally distributed species of Gesneriaceae plants was only found in Huishui. Administrative divisions Huishui governs 3 subdistricts and 8 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 ...: * Lianjiang subdistrict (涟江街道) * Mengjiang subdistrict (濛江街道) * Mingtian subdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Maonan People
The Maonan people (; Maonan: ''Anan'', literally "local people") are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. There are a total of 101,192 Maonan as of 2010, mostly living in northern Guangxi and southern Guizhou in southern China. The Maonan people's autonyms are ''ʔai1 na:n6 ''(a Maonan person), ''kjɔŋ5 na:n6'' (the Maonan people). Their language is called ''va6 na:n6'' (Lu 2008:33).Lu, Tian Qiao (2008). ''A Grammar of Maonan''. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers. . Language Society More than 80% of the Maonan share the same surname: '' Tan'' (). Maonan with the surname ''Tan'' believe that they are descended from the old inhabitants of the province of Hunan that migrated to Guangxi and married Maonan women. Other common surnames found in this ethnic group are: '' Lu'' (卢/盧), '' Liu'' (刘/劉), '' Shi'' (石), '' Qin'' (覃), '' Wei'' (韦/韋) and '' Yuan'' (袁). The towns of the Maonan do not surpass more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Secondary Articulation
In phonetics, secondary articulation occurs when the articulation of a consonant is equivalent to the combined articulations of two or three simpler consonants, at least one of which is an approximant. The secondary articulation of such co-articulated consonants is the approximant-like articulation. It "colors" the primary articulation rather than obscuring it. Maledo (2011) defines secondary articulation as the superimposition of lesser stricture upon a primary articulation. Types There are several kinds of secondary articulation supported by the International Phonetic Alphabet: * Labialization is the most frequently encountered secondary articulation. For example, labialized has a primary velar plosive articulation, , with simultaneous -like rounding of the lips, thus the name. It is in contrast to the doubly articulated labial-velar consonant , which is articulated with two overlapping plosive articulations, and . * Palatalization is perhaps best known from the Russian "s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dushan County
Dushan County () is a county of 346,000 people (2007) in Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the south of the province, bordering Guangxi to the south. The county seat is the town of Baiquan. Dushan is located in a mountainous area, with elevations increasing from south to north. The primary river in the county is the Duliu River (), and the annual mean temperature is around and there is total of of rainfall annually. Transportation links include the Guizhou–Guangxi Railway (), the G75 Lanzhou–Haikou Expressway, China National Highways 210 and 312. Important natural attractions are Duxiu Mountain (), Shenxian Cave () and Yuqing Caves (), and Ziquan Lake (). History From 2016 to 2020, the county government spent 40 billion renminbi ($5.7 billion U.S. dollars) on construction projects. Amanda Lee of the ''South China Morning Post'' described these as " white elephant". Guan Video created a 22-minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Zongzi
''Zongzi'' () or simply ''zong'' () is a traditional Chinese rice dish made of glutinous rice stuffed with a range of fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves. Fillings can be either sweet, such as red bean paste, or savory, such as pork belly or Chinese sausage. The bamboo for wrapping the ''zongzi'' is generally of the species ''Indocalamus tessellatus'', although sometimes common reed, reed or other large flat leaves may be used. ''Zongzi'' are cooked by steaming or boiling. Names As it diffused to other regions of Asia over many centuries, ''zongzi'' became known by various names in different languages and cultures, including ''phet htoke'' () in Burmese language, Burmese-speaking areas (such as Myanmar), ''nom chang'' in Cambodia, ''machang'' in Philippines, ''bacang'' in Indonesia, ''khanom chang'' in Laos, and ''ba-chang'' in Thailand. Vietnamese cuisine also has a variation on this dish known as ''bánh ú tro'' or ''bánh tro''. In Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Chinese Bayberry
''Myrica rubra'', also called yangmei (; Cantonese: yeung4 mui4; Shanghainese: ), , Chinese bayberry, red bayberry, yumberry, waxberry, or Chinese strawberry (and often mistranslated from Chinese as arbutus) is a subtropical tree grown for its fruit. Description ''Myrica rubra'' is an evergreen tree that grows to a height of up to high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. Leaves are leathery, bare, elliptic-obovate to oval lanceolate in shape, wedge-shaped at the base and rounded to pointed or tapered at the apex, margin is serrated or serrated in the upper half, with a length of and a width of . Leaves are alternately arranged on the branches are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The petiole is long. The leaf underside is pale green and sparsely to moderately golden glandular, the top surface is dark green. The species is dioecious. Male flowers with simple or unobtrusively branched bracts, are held in inflorescences individually or occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cogon Grass
''Imperata cylindrica'' (commonly known as cogongrass or kunai grass ) is a species of perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, Africa, and Southern Europe. It has also been introduced to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Southeastern United States. It is a highly flammable pyrophyte, and can spread rapidly by colonizing disturbed areas and encouraging more frequent wildfires. Common names The species is most commonly known in English as "cogongrass" (also "cogon grass"), from Spanish ''cogón'', from the Tagalog and Visayan ''kugon''. Other common names in English include kunai grass, blady grass, satintail, spear grass, sword grass, thatch grass, alang-alang, lalang grass, cotton wool grass, kura-kura, and keri, among other names. Taxonomy ''Imperata cylindrica'' was first described by Linnaeus in 1759 under the basionym ''Lagurus cylindricus''. They were renamed by the French entomologist and botanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |