Bai language

E721207

The Bai language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Bai ethnic group in Yunnan Province, southwestern China.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bai language canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
language
approximateSpeakers over 1 million
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Bai
country China
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Bai people
family Sino-Tibetan language family
geographicDistribution northwestern Yunnan
glottocode bais1244
hasAlternativeName Bo language
Minjia (historical exonym)
hasDialects Bijiang Bai
Dali Bai
Jianchuan Bai
Lijiang Bai
hasFeature distinct non-Chinese core vocabulary
loanwords from Chinese
strong Chinese lexical influence
tone
hasHistoricalContactWith Burmese languages
Old Chinese
hasPhonologicalFeature tone sandhi in some dialects
iso639-3 bca
languageFamilyStatus classification debated
languageOf Bai people
linguisticTypology analytic language
majorDialect Dali Bai
neighboringLanguages Mandarin Chinese
Naxi language
Yi languages
possibleSubgroup Sinitic languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
primaryEthnicGroup Bai people
region Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture
Kunming
linked to: Kunming, China

Lijiang
regulatoryBody none
script Chinese characters
Latin alphabet
spokenIn China
Yunnan Province
southwestern China
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional songs
wordOrder SVO

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Referenced by (5)

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

Bai language Bai language
Dali Old Town languageUsed Bai language
Third Month Fair languageUsed Bai language