She language

For the Sinitic language of Zhejiang and Fujian, see She Chinese.
Not to be confused with Benc' language.
She
Ho Le
Native toChina
RegionZengcheng, Boluo County, Huidong County and Haifeng County in Guangdong
Ethnicity710,000 She (2000 census)[1]
Native speakers
(910 cited 1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3shx
Glottologshee1238
ELPShe
She is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The She language (Mandarin: 畲語, Shēyǔ), autonym Ho Le[5] or Ho Ne, /hɔ22 ne53/ or Ho Nte, is a critically endangered Hmong–Mien language spoken by the She people.[6] Most of the over 709,000 She people today speak She Chinese (possibly a variety of Hakka Chinese). Those who speak Sheyu—approximately 1,200 individuals in Guangdong Province—call themselves Ho Ne, "mountain people" (活聶; huóniè).

  1. ^ a b She at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Taguchi, Yoshihisa (2012). On the Phylogeny of the Hmong-Mien languages. Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics 2012 (PowerPoint presentation). Archived from the original (PPTX) on 2016-03-03.
  3. ^ a b Hsiu, Andrew. 2015. The classification of Na Meo, a Hmong-Mien language of Vietnam. Paper presented at SEALS 25, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  4. ^ a b Hsiu, Andrew. 2018. Preliminary classification of Hmongic languages Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ICSTLL56 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved 2015-04-11.