Kim Mun language

Kim Mun
Native to China
Region Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County
Native speakers
ca. 400,000 (1995–1999)[1]
Hmong–Mien
Official status
Official language in
China (in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mji
Glottolog kimm1245[2]

Kim Mun language (金门方言) is a Hmong–Mien language spoken by some of the Yao people in the provinces of Guangxi, Hunan and Hainan.

Iu Mien and Kim Mun are very similar to each other, having a lexical similarity percentage of 78%.

Distribution

In China, Kim Mun is spoken in the following counties (Mao 2004:304-305).[3]

Notes

  1. Kim Mun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kim Mun". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 毛宗武, 李云兵 / Mao Zongwu, Li Yunbing. 1997. 巴哼语研究 / Baheng yu yan jiu (A Study of Baheng [Pa-Hng]). Shanghai: 上海远东出版社 / Shanghai yuan dong chu ban she.

References

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