Pa-Hng

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Pa-Hng is a minority Hmong-Mien language spoken by small ethnic communities in parts of southern China and Southeast Asia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hmong-Mien language
language
minority language
alternativeName Pa-Hng Hmongic NERFINISHED
Pa-Hng language NERFINISHED
belongsTo Hmong-Mien ethnolinguistic group
documentationStatus limited descriptive work
endangeredStatus endangered
minority
glottocode pahn1235
hasFeature complex tone system
isolating morphology
monosyllabic morphemes
tonal language
hasGrammar SVO word order (tendency)
little inflectional morphology
hasPhonology contrastive tones
rich consonant inventory
iso639-3Code pha
languageContactWith Chinese NERFINISHED
Lao NERFINISHED
Vietnamese
languageFamily Hmong-Mien NERFINISHED
linguisticClassification Sino-Tibetan area language
region northern Southeast Asia
southern China
riskFactor shift to dominant national languages
script Chinese characters
Latin script
spokenBy Hmong-Mien ethnic minorities
Pa-Hng people NERFINISHED
spokenIn China NERFINISHED
Guangxi NERFINISHED
Guizhou NERFINISHED
Laos NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
Vietnam NERFINISHED
Yunnan NERFINISHED
statusInChina unofficial minority language
subfamily Hmongic NERFINISHED
subjectOf comparative Hmong-Mien phonology studies
field linguistics documentation
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
ritual speech
vitality declining intergenerational transmission
writingSystem no widely standardized orthography

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