Mulao language

E901988

The Mulao language is a Kam–Sui language of the Tai–Kadai family spoken by the Mulao ethnic group in southern China.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mulao language canonical 4
Mulao–Maonan languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kam–Sui language
Tai–Kadai language
language
alternateName Mulam language
Mulao
linked to: Mulao people
autonym Mulam
belongsTo Kam–Sui branch of Tai–Kadai
closelyRelatedTo Kam language
Maonan language
Sui language
country China
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mulao
linked to: Mulao people
family Tai–Kadai
glottologCode mula1248
glottologName Mulam
hasDialects various local varieties
hasLinguisticFeature SVO basic word order
classifier system
tonal language
hasMorphologicalType analytic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tones
rich consonant inventory
ISO639-3 mlm
languageBranch Kam–Sui
languageFamily Tai–Kadai
primaryArea Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County
recognizedAs language of an ethnic minority in China
region southern China
spokenBy Mulao people
spokenIn China
Guangxi
linked to: Guangxi Province

Guizhou
linked to: Guizhou Province
subfamily Kam–Sui
usedAlongside Southwestern Mandarin
Standard Chinese
writingSystem none (traditionally unwritten)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Kam language closelyRelatedTo Mulao language
Kam–Sui languages hasMemberLanguage Mulao language
Kam–Sui languages hasMemberLanguage Mulao–Maonan languages
linked to: Mulao language
Kam–Sui hasPart Mulao language
Mulao people traditionalLanguage Mulao language