Lingling (Chinese: Linghua 伶话 ''Línghuà'' or Lingling hua; Lingling: ') is an unclassified mixed
Chinese 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
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in
Longsheng County,
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
. It is only spoken within the community; with outsiders,
Southwestern Mandarin
Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in much of Southwestern China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the nor ...
is spoken.
He (2009) covers the Linghua dialect of Taiping (太平村), Pingdeng Township (平等乡), Longsheng County, Guangxi.
A description of the Taipingtang 太平塘村 dialect of Linghua can be found in Wang (2014).
[ (Originally published in ''Fangyan 方言'' 1979(2):137-141; 1979(3):231-240)]
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
/i, a, ɔ, u, y, ə/
Vocabulary
This section lists sample vocabulary in Linghua from Wang (2014). Translated English glosses have also been provided.
Pronouns
Numerals
Nature
Body parts
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 Guangxi
Hmongic languages
Mixed languages
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