Yangchun Pai Yao | |
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Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Yao |
Extinct | Effectively extinct, one elderly partial speaker remaining as of 2019 |
Hmong–Mien
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog |
yang1310 |
Yangchun Pai Yao is an extinct Mienic language of Yangchun, Guangdong, China. It is unclassified within Mienic, and is likely a sister branch to Dzao Min. [1]
The 1996 Yangchun County Gazetteer (阳春县志) has just over a dozen Yangchun Pai Yao words that were transcribed in Chinese characters. According to the gazetteer, there were 13 semi-speakers remaining in the 1990s. [2] Hsiu (2023) reported that the language was extinct in 2019, with only one elderly rememberer able to provide a few dozen words. [1]