Tongdao Pinghua | |
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Native to | China |
Region | Hunan |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2015) [1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
ISO 639-6 | (none) |
Glottolog | None |
The Tongdao Pinghua is a variety of Guibei Pinghua (桂北平话) influenced by Kam (Dong). It is spoken by about 25,000 people in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan, China (Shi 2015:137). [1]
Although Tongdao Pinghua speakers are classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Han, the speakers consider themselves to be a distinct ethnic group, and neither Han nor Kam. [2]
Tongdao Pinghua speakers call their own language Bendihua 本地话 (the name Bendihua ( Chinese: 本地话) literally means 'native language'), although some speakers also refer to it as Jiangping 讲平. The Kam people refer to it as li31 ka31 ti41, and the Yao ( Pa Hng speakers) refer to it as Luoyanhua (洛岩话; "Luoyan language"). [2]
Tongdao Pinghua speakers call themselves the wən22 ɲən22 people (我们人) (Shi 2015:137). [1] The Dong call them ka31 pən33 ti33 ( Chinese: 本地客) or ka31 ti33 ( Chinese: 地客), while the language is called li31 ka31 ti42 ( Chinese: 本地话). [1] The Dong refer to Han Chinese of Jingzhou County, Hunan as ka31 ( Chinese: 客), and their language as li31 ka31 ( Chinese: 客话). The Yao refer to the Bendi language as lo33 ŋai33. [1]
Within Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province, Tongdao Pinghua is primarily spoken in Xiaxiang 下乡, Linkou 临口, and Jingwuzhou 菁芜州 townships. Tongdao Pinghua is also spoken to a lesser extent in the townships of Mujiao 木脚, Xikou 溪口, and Malong 马龙, as well as Chengbu County, Hunan and Longsheng County, Guangxi. [2]
Peng (2010:1) [2] divides Tongdao Pinghua into 4 main dialects.
Shi (2015) recognizes the 4 Tongdao Pinghua dialects of: