Hlai
Hlai is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in China, by about 700 thousand people.
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The Hlai languages (Chinese: 黎语; pinyin: Líyǔ) are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan in China by the Hlai people, not to be confused with the colloquial name for the Leizhou branch of Min Chinese (Chinese: 黎话; pinyin: Líhuà). They include Cun, whose speakers are ethnically distinct. A quarter of Hlai speakers are monolingual. None of the Hlai languages had a writing system until the 1950s, when the Latin script was adopted for Ha.
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Words in Hlai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| water | noms | |
| cat | mieux | |
| fish | hla | |
| one | ceuus | |
| two | hlaus | |
| three | fus | |
| four | caus | |
| five | ba | |
| ten | fuet |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Cun-NadouTai-Kadai27% alike
- Western Ong-BeTai-Kadai23% alike
- LüTai-Kadai23% alike
- Guibian ZhuangTai-Kadai23% alike
- Tai YaTai-Kadai21% alike
- ThaiTai-Kadai21% alike
Grammar
- Southern DongTai-Kadai95% alike
- ZhuangTai-Kadai93% alike
- BouyeiTai-Kadai91% alike
- SheHmong-Mien91% alike
- BraoAustroasiatic91% alike
- Rembong-WangkaAustronesian91% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · hlai1239 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · lic