Yangchun Pai Yao language
{{Short description|Extinct Mienic language of Guangdong, China}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Yangchun Pai Yao
| familycolor = Hmong-Mien
| states = China
| region = Yangchun, Guangdong
| extinct = Effectively extinct, one elderly partial speaker remaining as of 2019
| fam1 = Hmong–Mien
| fam2 = Mienic
| iso3 = none
| ethnicity = Yao
| glotto = yang1310
| glottorefname = Yangchun Pai Yao
}}
Yangchun Pai Yao is an extinct Mienic language of Yangchun, Guangdong, China. It is unclassified within Mienic, and is likely a sister branch to Dzao Min.{{Cite web |last=Hsiu |first=Andrew |date=May 16–18, 2023 |title=The Pai Yao language of Yangchun: Final remnants of a Mienic language |url=https://www.academia.edu/101975196 |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=Southeast Asian Linguistics Society}}
Documentation
The 1996 Yangchun County Gazetteer (阳春县志) has just over a dozen Yangchun Pai Yao words that were transcribed in Chinese characters. According to the gazetteer, there were 13 semi-speakers remaining in the 1990s.Yangchun City Geographical History Office [阳春市地方史志办公室]. 1996. Yangchun County Gazetteer [阳春县志]. Guangzhou: Guangdong People's Publishing House [广东人民出版社]. Hsiu (2023) reported that the language was extinct in 2019, with only one elderly rememberer able to provide a few dozen words.
References
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Category:Languages of Guangdong
Category:Extinct languages of Asia
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