Li language

E233743

Li language is an Austroasiatic language (often classified within the Tai–Kadai family) spoken primarily by the Li ethnic group indigenous to China’s Hainan Island.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Li language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language
natural language
alsoKnownAs Hainan Hlai
Hainan Li
Hlai
belongsToSubgroup Hlai branch of Tai–Kadai
continent Asia
country China
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Li people
glottologCode hlai1238
glottologName Hlai
hasAlternativeClassification Austroasiatic languages
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers over 1 million
hasContactWith Hainanese language
surface form: Hainanese (Min Chinese)

Standard Chinese
hasDialect Baisha dialect
Ha dialect
Meifu dialect
Qi dialect
Run dialect
Sai dialect
hasEthnologueEntry Li
hasISO6393Code hli
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
hasLinguisticTypology analytic language
hasNeighboringLanguage Be language
Cantonese
Mandarin Chinese
Zhuang language
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal language
hasSpeakerCommunity indigenous community of Hainan Island
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystemStatus partially standardized
indigenousTo Hainan
surface form: Hainan Island
isMinorityLanguageIn China
isSubjectOf comparative Tai–Kadai linguistic research
languageFamily Tai–Kadai languages
majorityLanguageOf Li people
primaryRegion Hainan
surface form: Hainan Province
region southern China
surface form: Southern China
script Chinese characters
Latin script
spokenBy Li people
spokenIn China
Hainan
surface form: Hainan Island
usedIn folk songs of Li people
oral literature of Li people
rituals of Li people
traditional Li culture

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hainan localLanguage Li language
Utsat language hasContactWith Li language