A Grammar of Xong

A Grammar of Xong
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 682
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ISBN-10 : 9783110764932
ISBN-13 : 3110764938
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Xong by : Adam Sposato

Download or read book A Grammar of Xong written by Adam Sposato and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that Miao-Yao (or Hmong-Mien) is one of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia, this work is only the second full-length descriptive grammar of any Miao-Yao language published in English. It focuses on Xong, a language belonging to the Miao branch of the family. Xong has approximately 900,000 speakers, the vast majority lives in Hunan and Guizhou Provinces in South-Central China. In particular, this description concentrates on several fully mutually intelligible Xong varieties spoken in Fenghuang County, located in the Hunan Province. In producing this work, the author primarily relies on the fieldwork data he collected over a period of ten months in Fenghuang County. He also made use of many of the previously published Chinese-language descriptions of Xong. The results are of use to scholars with an interest in the Miao-Yao family in particular or in the languages of East and Southeast Asia more in general.


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