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Sui

Sui is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in China and Vietnam, by about 300 thousand people.

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Sui · 24.0°N 106.6°E

The Sui language (simplified Chinese: 水语; traditional Chinese: 水語; pinyin: Shuǐyǔ) is a Kam–Sui language spoken by the Sui people of Guizhou province in China. According to Ethnologue, it was spoken by around 300,000 people in 2007. Sui is also unique for its rich inventory of consonants, with the Sandong (三洞) dialect having as many as 70 consonants. The language also has its own script, known as "Shuishu" (水書) in Chinese, which is used for ritual purposes.

Some regionally atypical features of the Sui language include voiceless nasals (hm, hn), palatal stops, postvelar stops, prenasalized stops (mb, nd), and pre-glottalized stops and nasals (i.e. ʔb, ʔm).

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Words in Sui

MeaningWordRomanization
personz3n*
name7dan*
eyendal
earqha*
nose7naN*
toothSu*
tonguema*
handmya*
bloodphat*
bone7dak*
skinpi*
kneeqamqu*
breasttyu*
livertap*
waternamc
firevil
sundawan*
starz3t*
stonetin*
mountainpya*
treemai*
leafwamai*
night7m3ksan*
dogma*
fishm3m*
lousetu*
oneto*
twoxa*
Iyu*
you5a*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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