Baima language
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Baima (autonym: pe˥˧)[2] is a language spoken by 10,000 Baima people,[3] of Tibetan ethnicity,[citation needed] in north-central Sichuan Province and Gansu Province, China.[3] Baima is passed on from parents to children in Baima villages. It is spoken within the home domain and is not used in any media of mass communication.[3]
Baima | |
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Pe | |
白马语 | |
Pronunciation | /pe˥˧/ |
Native to | China |
Region | Sichuan and Gansu |
Ethnicity | 14,000 Baima people (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2007)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bqh |
Glottolog | baim1244 |
ELP | Baima |
Baima is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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Baima uses subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, word-initial consonant clusters and is tonal. It is unclassified within Sino-Tibetan; there are multiple layers of borrowings from Amdo, Khams, and Zhongu Tibetan, as well as lexical and grammatical connections with Qiangic languages. Basic vocabulary is about 85% Tibetic and 15% Qiangic, and the Tibetic words do not link to any established group of Tibetic languages. Chirkova (2008) suggests that the Qiangic vocabulary "might be a retention from the language originally spoken by the Báimǎ before their shift to a form of Tibetic in the 7th century." She accepts Baima as Tibetan, but as an isolate within the Tibetic languages.[4]