Meaning of Mienic | Babel Free

Definitions

One of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.

Examples

“In reconstruction work⟳, it is common to find⟳ a split⟳ between Hmongic and Mienic cognate sets, where the Hmongic side has retained the native word, and the Mienic side has replaced the native word with a Chinese borrowing.”

“Strecker (personal communication) has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex.”

“The same form⟳ also occurs as a borrowed copula in some Mienic languages which form⟳ part of the Hmong-Mien (formerly Miao-Yao) family of southern China and neighbouring areas (Martha Ratliff, personal communication, but see⟳ also Shintani and Zhao 1990 on the use⟳ of the form⟳ in the Mienic language Mun), and it may have⟳ been incorporated into the grammars of other languages in mainland China (and possibly also Taiwan).”

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