Biao Mon (autonym: ')
[Mao Zongwu ��宗武 2004. ''A study of Mien dialects'' 'Yao zu Mian yu fang yan yan jiu'' 瑤族勉语方言研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House ��族出版社] is a
Mienic language of
Guangxi
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province, China. It is spoken in
Lipu
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,
Mengshan,
Pingle, and
Zhaoping counties in Guangxi, China.
Biao Mon is not to be confused with
Biao Min, a different Mienic language spoken to the north in
Quanzhou
Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...
and
Gongcheng counties of Guangxi. Also, despite sometimes being referred to as "Mien," Biao Mon is not a variety of
Iu Mien and is distinct from it.
Names
Alternative names for Biao Mon include (''Ethnologue''):
*Biao Mien
*Biao-Mian 标勉
*Biaoman 标曼
*Changping 长坪
Biao Mon is referred to by Luang-Thongkum (1993) as Muen.
[Luang-Thongkum, Theraphan. 1993]
A view on Proto-Mjuenic (Yao)
''Mon-Khmer Studies'' 22:163-230.
Varieties
Mao (2004) provides extensive documentation of the Biao Mon variety of Dongpingdong village 东坪垌村, Changping township 长坪乡,
Mengshan County 蒙山县, Guangxi.
"Biao Man 标曼" (') of Liuchong 六冲, Qiaoting Township 桥亭乡,
Pingle County 平乐县, Guangxi is documented by Tang (1994); another "Biao Man 标曼" dialect is spoken in Dongpingdong 东坪洞 (Tang 1994).
[Tang Yongliang 唐永亮. 1994. Yaozu Mianyu Liuchong Biaomanhua yuyin tedian he shengdiao shiyan yanjiu 瑶族勉语六冲标曼话语音特点和声调实验研究. ''Minzu Yuwen'' 1994:5.]
Luoxiang 罗香 (Ao Biao 坳标), a Mienic language variety of
Jinxiu County,
Guangxi
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, is closely related to Biao Mon but is distinct from it.
References
Sources
*Mao Zongwu
��宗武 2004. ''A study of Mien dialects''
'Yao zu Mian yu fang yan yan jiu'' 瑤族勉语方言研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House
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Hmong–Mien languages
Languages of China