Kuan language

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Kuanhua
Damai
Native to China
Region Southwest Yunnan
Native speakers 1,000  (1991)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xnh

Kuan (Kuanhua), is a poorly classified Mon–Khmer language spoken by a thousand people in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Li (2005) proposes that it is a Mangic language.[2] Other possible affiliations include Palaungic and Khmuic.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Kuanhua at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ^ 李云兵 / Li Yunbing. 2005. 布赓语研究 / Bugeng yu yan jiu (A Study of Bugeng [Bugan]). Beijing: 民族出版社 / Min zu chu ban she.