Mienic
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See also: mienić
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Mienic
- One of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
- 2006, Thomas D. Cravens, Variation and Reconstruction, →ISBN, page 166:
- In reconstruction work, it is common to find a split between Hmongic and Mienic cognate sets, where the Hmongic side has retained the native word, and the Mienic side has replaced the native word with a Chinese borrowing.
- 2010, Martha Ratliff, Meaningful Tone:
- Strecker (personal communication) has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex.
- 2012, Björn Wiemer, Bernhard Wälchli, Björn Hansen, Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact, →ISBN:
- The same form also occurs as a borrowed copula in some Mienic languages which form part of the Hmong-Mien (formerly Miao-Yao) family of southern China and neighbouring areas (Martha Ratliff, personal communication, but see also Shintani and Zhao 1990 on the use of the form in the Mienic language Mun), and it may have been incorporated into the grammars of other languages in mainland China (and possibly also Taiwan).