Sangkong (Chinese: 桑孔; autonym: saŋ55 qʰoŋ55) is a Loloish language spoken in China by the Hani people in Xiaojie Township 小街乡, Jinghong County. They are called Buxia (布夏) by the local Dai people (Li 2003).
Sangkong | |
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Buxia | |
Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Hani |
Native speakers | (1,500 cited 1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sgk |
Glottolog | sang1320 |
ELP | Sangkong |
![]() Sangkong is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Li (2003) covers the Sangkong dialect of Manwanwa village 曼宛洼寨, Menglong Town 勐龙镇, Jinghong County.[2] It may be the same as the Muda language. You Weiqiong (2013:172) reports that Buxia 布夏 (Sangkong 桑孔) is spoken in 7 villages of Menglong 勐龙.[3]
Sangkong verb phrases take one of two person markers: ŋa for 1st person, and ʑe for non-1st person.[4]
References
edit- ^ Sangkong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "景洪市勐龙镇曼宛洼村委会曼宛洼村". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
- ^ You Weiqiong [尤伟琼]. 2013. Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan [云南民族识别研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社].
- ^ Matisoff 1993.
- Li, Yongsui. 2003. A study of Sangkong. Beijing: The Nationalities Press.
- Matisoff, James A. (1993). "Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: Secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 16:2: 123–142 – via Google Scholar.