Bouyi

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Bouyi is an alternate name for the Bouyei language, a Tai–Kadai language spoken primarily by the Bouyei ethnic group in southern China.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Bouyei language 0
Bouyei 4

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tai–Kadai language
Tai–Kadai language
language
language
alternateName Bouyei language NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Northern Zhuang NERFINISHED
Standard Zhuang NERFINISHED
country China
surface form: People's Republic of China
endangeredStatus vulnerable (regional variation)
ethnicGroup Bouyei NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bouyi
Buyi NERFINISHED
Giay (in Vietnam, for related varieties) NERFINISHED
Puyi
hasAutonym Buxqyaix
hasDialects Central Bouyei NERFINISHED
Eastern Bouyei NERFINISHED
Western Bouyei NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode bouy1240
hasISO639-3Code pcc
hasLinguisticFeature SVO basic word order
analytic morphology
classifier system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tones
tone language
hasStandardForm Guizhou Bouyei standard NERFINISHED
influencedBy Chinese loanwords
languageFamily Tai–Kadai NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Miao (Hmongic languages) NERFINISHED
Southwestern Mandarin NERFINISHED
Zhuang NERFINISHED
recognizedAs minority language of China
region Southern China NERFINISHED
regulatingBody local language committees in Guizhou
scriptReform 1950s Latin-based orthography
spokenBy Bouyei people NERFINISHED
spokenIn China
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Guizhou Province NERFINISHED
Yunnan Province NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Northern Tai languages NERFINISHED
usedBy ethnic minority communities in Guizhou
usedIn education (local primary level)
local media
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (5)

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

Buyi exonym Bouyi
this entity surface form: Bouyei
Anshun hasEthnicGroup Bouyi
this entity surface form: Bouyei
Liupanshui hasEthnicGroup Bouyi
this entity surface form: Bouyei
Tai hasMemberLanguage Bouyi
this entity surface form: Bouyei