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
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 |