| She language | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ho Ne | ||
| Pronunciation | [hɔ˨ne˥˧] | |
| Spoken in | China | |
| Region | Guangdong | |
| Total speakers | 1,200 (2002) | |
| Language family | Hmong-Mien
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | none | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | shx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The She language (Chinese: 畲語 shēyǔ), spoken by the She people, is a Hmong-Mien language. Most of the over 709,000 She people today speak Hakka Chinese. Those who retain their own language - approximately 1,200 individuals in Guangdong province - call themselves Ho Ne "mountain people" (Chinese: 活聂 huóniè).
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Classification
The She have strongly influenced, and been strongly influenced by, the Hakka Chinese, both in language and culture. The She language is thus not easily compared to other Hmong-Mien languages. It is generally either included in the Hmong branch, or left as a posited third branch of that family.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Palatalized | Plain | Palatzd | Plain | Palatzd | Labialized | Plain | Palatzd | |||
| Nasals | Voiced | m | mʲ | n | nʲ | ŋ | ŋʲ | ||||
| Voiceless | ŋ̊ | ||||||||||
| Plosives | Voiceless unaspirated | p | pʲ | t | tʲ | k | kʲ | kʷ | |||
| Voiceless aspirated | pʰ | pʰʲ | tʰ | tʰʲ | kʰ | kʰʲ | kʰʷ | ||||
| Affricates | Voiceless unaspirated | ts | tsʲ | ||||||||
| Voiceless aspirated | tsʰ | tsʰʲ | |||||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f | s | sʲ | h | hʲ | |||||
| Voiced | v | z | zʲ | ||||||||
Vowels
References
- Mao, Zongwu & Meng, Chaoji. 1986. She yu jian zhi (A Sketch of the She language). Beijing, China: Nationalities Press. (毛宗武, 蒙朝吉. 1986. 畬語簡志. 北京: 民族出版社)
- Ratliff, Martha. 1998. Ho Ne (She) is Hmongic: One final argument. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 21.2:97-109.
- You, Wenliang. 2002. She zu yu yan (The Language of the She people). Fuzhou, China: Fujian People's Publishing House. (游文良. 2002. 畲族语言. 福州: 福建人民出版社)
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