Biao Mon

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Language: Biao Mon
Alternate names:: Biao Mien, Biaoman, Biao-Mian, Changping, Min Yao, Sida Min Yao
SIL-code: Ethnologue:bmt
Language family: Hmong-Mien, Mienic, Mian-Jin
Number of speakers: 20,000
Script: Category

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Introduction
- Dialects
The Biao Mon Verb
- Sample Verbs

Introduction

Biao Mon is a language of China. It is spoken in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Mengshan, Zhaoping, Pingle, Lipu, and Gongcheng counties. .

Dialects

Biao Mon (Min Yao), Shi Mun (Sida Min Yao). May be intelligible with some dialects of Iu Mien (See: Iu Mien). Quite different from and unintelligible with Biao Jiao Mien (See: Biao-Jiao Mien ?) or its dialect Biaomin, also called Biao Mien.

The Biao Mon Verb

Sample Verbs

to bite	tap21, than42
to blow	ȶhui33, phləm53
to burn	pau35, pu53
to buy	mai33, nɔŋ42
to chew	ðiu22, dʑiu42
to choose	ɕɛn35, thiu22
to climb	ma33, pla:n31
to come	ta:i31, ta31
to cook	ȶəu35, tsau53
to cry	ȵan35, ȵim53
to cut, hack	dau35, khom55
to die, be dead	tai22, tai42
to dig	un53, vjet54
to dream	bei33, bəi24
to drink	həp43, hup44
to eat	ȵin22, ȵin42
to fall	phwat54, ta35
to fear	dzja55, khən53 ȡa24
to flow	ðjəu22, thwəi33
to fly	dai24, dai55
to grow	an33
to hear	m̥ɔŋ24, moŋ55
to hide	meŋ35, tɕen24
to hit	bo54, ŋ̊a53
to kill	tai24, tai35
to know, be knowledgeable	pei33, pəi33
to open, uncover	khwai33
to plant	ȶɔŋ24, tsəŋ35
to say	ȶɔ35, koŋ53
to see	mə42, nom53
to sew	ðun31, tsu24
to shoot	pwən53, te35
to sit	θwei121, tswəi53
to sleep	mi24, pwei35
to sniff, smell	hom55, m̥ja24
to spit	ðja53, lja35
to split	kjɛ24, phi53
to stand	θau53, səu35
to steal	nim22, thəi33
to suck	ðut54, dzun53
to swell	əm35
to think	ɕaŋ53, lam53
to throw	djəu35, la35
to tie up, fasten	θai33, kləi35
to walk	ȵaŋ31, jaŋ31
to vomit	lu35, u53
to work	θau35, wəi24
to yawn	ka31 hau33, te35 klɔ42 hɔ33

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