Bunu language

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Bunu
Pu Nu
Buod Nuox
Native to China
Region Guangxi and bordering regions
Ethnicity Yao
Native speakers
359,474 (2001) [1]
Dialects
  • Dongnu
  • Nunu
  • Bunuo
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog dong1287
nunu1247
bunu1265

Bunu is a Hmongic language of southern China. Bunu speakers are classified as Yao by the People's Republic of China.

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Varieties

Meng (2001) lists the following language varieties for Bunu. [1]

The Shaoyang Prefecture Gazetteer (1997:533) reports that the Miao of Xinning County, Hunan, speak a Bunu-branch language.

The Yunnan Province Gazetteer (1989) reports that a Bunu dialect known as pu55 ʐa11 (布咋) is spoken by about 7,000 people in Guichao 归朝乡 and Dongbo 洞波瑶族乡 (including in Dadongzhai 大洞寨, Saxiangdong Village 三湘洞村 [3] ) townships of Funing County, Yunnan.

Others

The following may be alternative names for speakers of Bunu languages. [4]

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References

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