Endangered Languages Project - Jiongnai Bunu

Jiongnai Bunu

^{[aka Punu, Qiungnai, Kiong Nai]}

Classification: Hmong-Mien

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Punu, Qiungnai, Kiong Nai, Jiongnai, Jiongnaihua, Hualan Yao, Chiung-nai, Bunu, Jiongnai, 炯奈語, 花籃瑤
CLASSIFICATION		Hmong-Mien, Hmongic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		pnu
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Most members of ethnic group are speakers of this language.

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Classified as Yao nationality in China. Known as 'Hualan Yao' or ‘blue flower Yao’ in Chinese. Also known as 'Kiong people.'

PLACES: Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province, China

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,078
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,080
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from M. Zongwu (1999). There are 269 monolinguals.

PLACES: China;

LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing