Pa-Hng language

{{Infobox language

|name=Pa-Hng

|altname=Pateng

|pronunciation={{IPA|[pa31 ŋ̊ŋ35]}}

|states=China, Vietnam

|speakers={{sigfig|33610|2}}

|date=1995–2009

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Hmong-Mien

|fam2=Hmongic

|fam3=Bahengic

|iso3=pha

|glotto=pahn1237

|glottorefname=Pa-Hng

|map2=Lang Status 80-VU.svg

|mapcaption2={{center|{{small|Pa-Hng is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Pa-Hng (also spelled Pa-Hung; {{lang|zh|巴哼语}} {{transliteration|zh|pinyin|Bāhēng yǔ}}) is a divergent Hmongic (Miao) language spoken in Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hunan in southern China as well as northern Vietnam.

Classification

Pa-Hng has long been recognized as divergent. Benedict (1986) argued that one of its dialects constituted a separate branch of the Miao–Yao family. Ratliff found it to be the most divergent Hmongic (Miao) language that she analyzed.{{cite book |last=Ratliff |first=Martha |year=2010 |title=Hmong–Mien language history |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University |hdl=1885/146760 |isbn=978-0-85883-615-0 |hdl-access=free}} This Bahengic branch also includes Younuo (Yuno) and Wunai (Hm Nai).{{cite book |last1=毛 |first1=宗武 [Máo Zōngwǔ] |last2=李 |first2=云兵 [Lǐ Yúnbīng] |year=1997 |script-title=zh:巴哼语研究 |title=Bā hēng yǔ yánjiū |trans-title=A Study of Baheng [Pa-Hng] |location=Shanghai |publisher=上海远东出版社/Shànghǎi yuǎndōng chūbǎn shè}}

Names

Pa-Hng speakers are called by the following names:

{{IPA|pa31 ŋ̥ŋ35}} (巴哼)
{{IPA|m̥m35 nai33}} (唔奈)
Red Yao (红瑶)
Flowery Yao (花瑶)
Eight Surname Yao (八姓瑶)

In Liping County, Guizhou, the Dong people call the Pa-Hng {{IPA|ka31 jiu33}} (嘎优), while the Miao people call them {{IPA|ta55 tia52 ju33}} (大达优).Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer [贵州省志. 民族志] (2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House [貴州民族出版社]. In Tongdao County, Hunan, the Pa-Hng ({{IPA|xeŋ33}}) are also known as the Seven Surname Yao 七姓瑶, since they have the seven surnames of Shen 沈, Lan 兰, Dai 戴, Deng 邓, Ding 丁, Pu 蒲, and Feng 奉.Tongdao Dong Autonomous County Ethnic Gazetteer 通道侗族自治县民族志 (2004).

In China, Pa-Hng speakers are classified as Yao, even though their language is Hmongic rather than Mienic.

Varieties

Mao & Li (1997) splits Pa-Hng into the following subdivisions, and most closely related to Hm Nai:

Pa-Hng proper (巴哼 {{ipa|pa31 ŋ̥ŋ35}})
Northern
Southern
Hm Nai (唔奈 {{ipa|m̥m35 nai33}})

Vocabulary word lists for these three Pa-Hng varieties can be found in Mao & Li (1997). An additional dialect is found in Vietnam.

Northern Pa-Hng: Gundong 滚董, Liping County 黎平, Guizhou
Southern Pa-Hng: Wenjie 文界, Sanjiang County 三江, Guangxi
Hm Nai: Huxingshan 虎形山, Longhui County 隆回, Hunan

The Na-e dialect (also known by the Vietnamese rendition of Pa-Hng, Pà Then [Pateng]), is a geographic outlier. Paul Benedict (1986) argued that it is not actually Pa-Hng, or even Hmongic, but a separate branch of the Miao–Yao language family.{{cite journal |last=Benedict |first=Paul |year=1986 |title=Miao–Yao Enigma: The Na-e language |journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=89–90}} However, Strecker (1987) responded that it does appear to be a Pa-Hng dialect, though it has some peculiarities, and that Pa-Hng as a whole is divergent.{{multiref2

|1={{cite journal |last=Strecker |first=David |date=Fall 1987 |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/strecker1987some.pdf |title=Some Comments on Benedict's 'Miao–Yao Enigma: The Na-e language' |journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=22–42}}

|2={{cite journal |last=Strecker |first=David |date=Fall 1987 |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/strecker1987some-addendum.pdf |title=Some Comments on Benedict's 'Miao–Yao Enigma: The Na-e language': Addendum |journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=43–53}}}}

Jerold A. Edmondson has reported Pa-Hng dialects in Bac Quang District and Hong Quang Village of Chiem Hoa District in northern Vietnam, and found that they were most closely related to the Pa-Hng dialect spoken in Gaoji Township 高基, Sanjiang County, Guangxi.{{Cite web |url=http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/research/map.html |title=Map & Language Descriptions | Borderlands: Lesser Known Indigenous Languages of Northern Vietnam |access-date=2012-05-09 |archive-date=2012-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207074151/http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/research/map.html |url-status=dead }}

Distribution

=China=

Pa-Hng speakers are distributed in the following counties in China. Most of the counties have 1,000 - 6,000 Pa-Hng speakers (Mao & Li 1997).

Hunan
Longhui County, Shaoyang (Hm-Nai speakers)
Hm-Nai: Huxingshan 虎形山乡, Xiaoshajiang 小沙江乡, Motang 磨塘乡, Dashuitian 大水田乡
Dongkou County, Shaoyang (Hm-Nai speakers)
Chenxi County, Huaihua (Hm-Nai speakers)
Xupu County, Huaihua (Hm-Nai speakers)
Tongdao County, Huaihua (Hm-Nai speakers): 1,779 people (2000), in Chuansu Township 传素瑶族乡 and Linkou Township 临口镇 (in Shangdong 上洞村 and Xiadong 下洞村 villages). Highly endangered status.毛宗武 / Mao Zongwu. 优诺语研究 / Younuo yu yan jiu (A Study of Younuo). Beijing: 民族出版社 / Min zu chu ban she, 2007.
Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Shaoyang
Xinning County, Shaoyang
Suining County, Shaoyang (100+ speakers)
Guizhou
Liping County
Northern Pa-Hng: Gundong 滚董乡, Shunhua 顺化乡
Congjiang County
Southern Pa-Hng: Gaomang 高忙乡
Guangxi
Rongshui County (12,000+ speakers)
Northern Pa-Hng: Dalang 大浪乡, Danian 大年乡, Antai 安太乡, Dongtou 洞头乡, Gunbei 滚贝乡, Wangdong 汪洞乡, Gandong 杆洞乡; Huaibao 怀宝镇
Southern Pa-Hng: Baiyun 白云乡, Dalang 大浪乡, Anchui 安陲乡, Xiangfen 香粉乡
Sanjiang County
Northern Pa-Hng: Tongle 同乐乡, Laobao 老堡乡
Southern Pa-Hng: Wenjie 文界乡, Liangkou 良口乡
Longsheng County
Southern Pa-Hng: Sanmen 三门乡, Pingdeng 平等乡
Lingui County
(13 other counties)

=Vietnam=

Pa-Hng is also spoken in small pockets of northern Vietnam. In Vietnam, the Pa-Hng are an officially recognized ethnic group numbering around a few thousand people, where they are called Pà Thẻn. Na-e as reported by Bonifacy (1905) is also found in northern Vietnam.

Tân Trịnh, Quang Bình District, Hà Giang Province, Vietnam{{cite journal |last=Niederer |first=Barbara |year=1997 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/clao_0153-3320_1997_num_26_1_1506 |title=Notes comparatives sur le pa-hng |journal=Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=71–130|doi=10.3406/clao.1997.1506 }}{{cite book |last=Niederer |first=Barbara |year=2004 |chapter=Pa-hng and the classification of the Hmong-Mien languages |editor-last1=Tapp |editor-first1=N. |editor-last2=Michaud |editor-first2=J. |editor-last3=Culas |editor-first3=C. |editor-last4=Lee |editor-first4=G. Yai |title=Hmong/Miao in Asia |pages=129–146 |location=Bangkok |publisher=Silkworm Books}}
Bắc Quang District, Hà Giang Province, Vietnam{{cite journal |last1=Edmondson |first1=J. A. |last2=Gregerson |first2=K. J. |year=2001 |title=Four Languages of the Vietnam-China Borderlands |journal=Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |editor-first1=K. L. |editor-last1=Adams |editor-first2=T. J. |editor-last2=Hudak |location=Tempe |pages=101–133 |publisher=Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies}}
Minh Thương Village, Tân Lập Township
Tân Thịnh Township
Hồng Quang Village, Chiêm Hoá District, Tuyên Quang Province (62 km northwest of Chiêm Hoá City), where the speakers are known as Mèo Hoa (Flowery Miao)

According to Vu,{{cite book |last=Vũ |first=Quốc Khánh |year=2013 |pages=12–15 |title=Người Pà Thẻn ở Việt Nam |trans-title=The Pa Then in Vietnam |location=Hà Nội |publisher=Nhà xuất bản thông tấn}} the ancestors of the Pà Thẻn had first migrated from Guangxi to Hải Ninh (now Quảng Ninh Province), and then from Hải Ninh to the Thái Nguyên area. The Pà Thẻn then split off to settle in three main areas.

Linh Phú (Chiêm Hoá District, Tuyên Quang) and Trung Sơn (Yên Sơn District, Tuyên Quang)
Lăng Can (Na Hang District, Tuyên Quang), Hồng Quang (Chiêm Hoá District, Tuyên Quang), and Hữu Sản (Bắc Quang District, Hà Giang)
From Xuân Minh (Quang Bình District, Hà Giang), the Pà Thẻn migrated to the communes of Yên Bình, Yên Thành, Tân Trịnh, Tân Nam (all in Quang Bình District, Hà Giang) and Tân Lập (Bắc Quang District, Hà Giang).

Phonology

= Consonants =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" \| ! colspan="2" \|Labial ! colspan="2" \|Alveolar ! rowspan="2" \|(Alveolo-) palatal ! colspan="2" \|Velar ! colspan="2" \|Uvular ! rowspan="2" \|Glottal
plain !pal. !plain !pal. !plain !lab. !plain !lab.
rowspan="3" \|Nasal !voiced \|{{IPAlink\|m}} \|{{IPAlink\|mʲ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|n}} \|{{IPAlink\|ȵ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ŋ}} \| \| \| \|
voiceless \|{{IPAlink\|m̥}} \|{{IPAlink\|m̥ʲ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|n̥}} \|{{IPAlink\|ȵ̊}} \|{{IPAlink\|ŋ̊}} \| \| \| \|
breathy \|{{IPAlink\|mʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|mʲʱ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|nʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ȵʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ŋʱ}} \| \| \| \|
rowspan="5" \|Stop/ Affricate !voiceless \|{{IPAlink\|p}} \|{{IPAlink\|pʲ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|t}} \|{{IPAlink\|tɕ}} \|{{IPAlink\|k}} \|{{IPAlink\|kʷ}} \|{{IPAlink\|q}} \|{{IPAlink\|qʷ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ʔ}}
aspirated \|{{IPAlink\|pʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|pʲʰ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|tʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|tɕʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|kʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|kʷʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|qʰ}} \|{{IPAlink\|qʷʰ}} \|
breathy \|{{IPAlink\|pʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|pʲʱ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|tʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|tɕʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|kʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|kʷʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|qʱ}} \| \|
prenasal \|{{IPAlink\|ᵐp}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᵐpʲ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|ⁿt}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᶮtɕ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᵑk}} \| \|{{IPAlink\|ᶰq}} \| \|
prn. breathy \|{{IPAlink\|ᵐpʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᵐpʲʱ}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|ⁿtʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᶮtɕʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ᵑkʱ}} \| \|{{IPAlink\|ᶰqʱ}} \| \|
colspan="2" \|Fricative \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|f}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|s}} \|{{IPAlink\|ɕ}} \|{{IPAlink\|x}} \| \| \| \|{{IPAlink\|h}}
rowspan="3" \|Approximant !voiceless \| colspan="2" \| \|{{IPAlink\|l̥}} \|{{IPAlink\|l̥ʲ}} \| \| \| \| \| \|
voiced \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|ʋ}} \|{{IPAlink\|l}} \|{{IPAlink\|lʲ}} \|{{IPAlink\|j}} \| \|{{IPAlink\|w}} \| \| \|
breathy \| colspan="2" \|{{IPA link\|ʋʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|lʱ}} \|{{IPAlink\|lʱʲ}} \|{{IPA link\|jʱ}} \| \| \| \| \|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |

! colspan="2" |Labial

! colspan="2" |Alveolar

! rowspan="2" |(Alveolo-)
palatal

! colspan="2" |Velar

! colspan="2" |Uvular

! rowspan="2" |Glottal

plain

!plain

!plain

!plain

rowspan="3" |Nasal

|{{IPAlink|m}}

|{{IPAlink|mʲ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|n}}

|{{IPAlink|ȵ}}

|{{IPAlink|ŋ}}

voiceless

|{{IPAlink|m̥}}

|{{IPAlink|m̥ʲ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|n̥}}

|{{IPAlink|ȵ̊}}

|{{IPAlink|ŋ̊}}

breathy

|{{IPAlink|mʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|mʲʱ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|nʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ȵʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ŋʱ}}

rowspan="5" |Stop/
Affricate

!voiceless

|{{IPAlink|p}}

|{{IPAlink|pʲ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|t}}

|{{IPAlink|tɕ}}

|{{IPAlink|k}}

|{{IPAlink|kʷ}}

|{{IPAlink|q}}

|{{IPAlink|qʷ}}

|{{IPAlink|ʔ}}

aspirated

|{{IPAlink|pʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|pʲʰ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|tʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|tɕʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|kʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|kʷʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|qʰ}}

|{{IPAlink|qʷʰ}}

breathy

|{{IPAlink|pʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|pʲʱ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|tʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|tɕʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|kʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|kʷʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|qʱ}}

prenasal

|{{IPAlink|ᵐp}}

|{{IPAlink|ᵐpʲ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ⁿt}}

|{{IPAlink|ᶮtɕ}}

|{{IPAlink|ᵑk}}

|{{IPAlink|ᶰq}}

prn. breathy

|{{IPAlink|ᵐpʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ᵐpʲʱ}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ⁿtʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ᶮtɕʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ᵑkʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|ᶰqʱ}}

colspan="2" |Fricative

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|f}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|s}}

|{{IPAlink|ɕ}}

|{{IPAlink|x}}

|{{IPAlink|h}}

rowspan="3" |Approximant

!voiceless

| colspan="2" |

|{{IPAlink|l̥}}

|{{IPAlink|l̥ʲ}}

voiced

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ʋ}}

|{{IPAlink|l}}

|{{IPAlink|lʲ}}

|{{IPAlink|j}}

|{{IPAlink|w}}

breathy

| colspan="2" |{{IPA link|ʋʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|lʱ}}

|{{IPAlink|lʱʲ}}

|{{IPA link|jʱ}}

Alveolar sounds {{IPA|/t, tʰ, n, n̥, nʱ/}} are heard as retroflex {{IPA|[ʈ, ʈʰ, ɳ, ɳ̊, ɳʱ]}} in the Laobao dialect.

= Vowels =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! rowspan="2" \| ! colspan="2" \|Front ! colspan="2" \|Central ! colspan="3" \|Back
oral !nasal !oral !nasal ! colspan="2" \|oral !nasal
Close \|{{IPAlink\|i}} \|{{IPAlink\|ĩ}} \| colspan="2" \|({{IPA link\|ɨ}}) \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|u}} \|{{IPAlink\|ũ}}
Near-close \|{{IPAlink\|ɪ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ɪ̃}} \| colspan="2" \| \| colspan="2" \| \|
Close-mid \|{{IPAlink\|e}} \|{{IPAlink\|ẽ}} \| colspan="2" \| \|{{IPAlink\|ɤ}} \|{{IPAlink\|o}} \|{{IPAlink\|õ}}
Open-mid \|{{IPAlink\|ɛ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ɛ̃}} \| colspan="2" \| \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|ɔ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ɔ̃}}
Open \| colspan="2" \| \|{{IPAlink\|a}} \|{{IPAlink\|ã}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|ɑ}} \|{{IPAlink\|ɑ̃}}
Syllabic \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|m̩}} \| colspan="2" \|{{IPAlink\|n̩}} \| colspan="3" \|{{IPAlink\|ŋ̍}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! rowspan="2" |

! colspan="2" |Front

! colspan="2" |Central

! colspan="3" |Back

oral

!nasal

!oral

!nasal

! colspan="2" |oral

!nasal

|{{IPAlink|i}}

|{{IPAlink|ĩ}}

| colspan="2" |({{IPA link|ɨ}})

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|u}}

|{{IPAlink|ũ}}

Near-close

|{{IPAlink|ɪ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɪ̃}}

| colspan="2" |

Close-mid

|{{IPAlink|e}}

|{{IPAlink|ẽ}}

| colspan="2" |

|{{IPAlink|ɤ}}

|{{IPAlink|o}}

|{{IPAlink|õ}}

Open-mid

|{{IPAlink|ɛ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɛ̃}}

| colspan="2" |

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ɔ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɔ̃}}

Open

| colspan="2" |

|{{IPAlink|a}}

|{{IPAlink|ã}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|ɑ}}

|{{IPAlink|ɑ̃}}

Syllabic

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|m̩}}

| colspan="2" |{{IPAlink|n̩}}

| colspan="3" |{{IPAlink|ŋ̍}}

{{IPA|/i/}} can also be centralized to {{IPA|[ɨ]}} or {{IPA|[ʉ]}} when following initial sounds.{{Cite book |last=Edmondson |first=Jerold A. |chapter=Pa-hng development and diversity |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/edmondson1992pa-hng.pdf |publisher=Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies |year=1992 |title=Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |editor-first=M. |editor-last=Ratliff |editor-first2=E. |editor-last2=Schiller |pages=159–186}}

= Tones =

Pa-Hng is a Tonal language. It has 8 tones.Chen, 1996, p.68.

Tone \|\| Value \|\| ExampleExamples from Chen, 1996, p.67-68.
align=center=1 cellpadding="5"
\| 1	35	mei³⁵
\| 2	33	mei³³
\| 3	31	m̥ei³¹
\| 4	11	tau¹¹
\| 5	55	ɫ̥a⁵⁵
\| 6	44	kwhi44
\| 7	53	tjhei⁵³
\| 8	42	nei42

References

External links

Pa-Hng and Hm Nai comparative vocabulary list on Wiktionary (6 dialects compared)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120422165501/http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?id=757 ABVD: Pa-Hng (Gundong) word list]
[http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/cYEXofZB0JE/ Hm Nai of Longhui County, Hunan]
[http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ra6L5JGPAzY/ Yao of Malin Township, Xinning County, Hunan]
https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224052/http://cema.gov.vn/modules.php?name=Content&op=details&mid=524

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Category:Languages of Vietnam

Category:Languages of Guizhou

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