Blang language

{{Short description|Language of the Blang people}} {{Redirect|Pulang|another use|Pulang (film)}} {{Infobox language | name = Blang | altname = ''Pulang'' | nativename = | region = China, Burma | ethnicity = Blang | speakers = {{sigfig|68,380|2}} | date = 1994–2000 | ref = e18 | familycolor = Austro-Asiatic | fam2 = Khasi–Palaungic | fam3 = Palaungic | fam4 = Waic | dia1 = Phang | dia2 = Kem Degne | script = Tai Tham | lc1 = blr | ld1 = Blang | lc2 = stu | ld2 = Samtao | linglist = stu | lingname = Samtao | glotto = blan1242 | glottoname = Blang | glotto2 = samt1238 | glottoname2 = Samtao | lingua = 46-DBA-c }}

'''Blang''' (Pulang) is the language of the Blang people of China and Myanmar.

==Dialects == Samtao of Myanmar is a dialect of Blang language.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mon-Khmer Classification (Draft) |url=http://sealang.net/sala/mk-class.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922081933/http://sealang.net/sala/mk-class.htm |archive-date=2018-09-22 |access-date=2012-04-22}}</ref>

In Yunnan province of China, Blang dialects include the following:<ref>{{harvp|Li|Nie|Qiu|1986}}</ref> *'''Bulang 布朗'''; ''representative dialect'': Xinman'e 新曼俄, Bulangshan District 布朗山区, Menghai County<ref>{{Cite web |title=Měnghǎi Xiàn Bùlǎngshān Xiāng Měngáng Cūnwěihuì Xīnmàné Zìráncūn |script-title=zh:勐海县布朗山乡勐昂村委会新曼峨自然村 |trans-title=Xinman'e Natural Village, Mengang Village Committee, Bulangshan Township, Menghai County |url=http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=140952 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305044658/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=140952 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |access-date=2013-03-07 |website=ynszxc.gov.cn |language=zh}}</ref> *'''A'erwa 阿尔佤''' (Awa 阿佤); ''representative dialect'': Guanshuang 关双, Mengman Township 勐满镇, Menghai County<ref>{{Cite web |title=Měnghǎi Xiàn Měngmǎn Zhèn Guānshuāng Cūnwěihuì Guānshuāng |script-title=zh:勐海县勐满镇关双村委会关双 |trans-title=Guanshuang, Guanshuang Village Committee, Mengman Town, Menghai County |url=http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=178019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305050605/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=178019 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |access-date=2013-03-07 |website=ynszxc.gov.cn |language=zh}}</ref>

== Phonology == Source:<ref>Block, Karen Louise. 1994. Discourse Grammar of First Person Narrative in Plang. (MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington).</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+Blang consonants ! colspan="2" | !Labial !Alveolar !Palatal !Velar !Glottal |- ! rowspan="2" |Nasal !{{small|voiced}} |{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} |{{IPA link|ɲ}} |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |- !{{small|voiceless}} |{{IPA link|m̥}} |{{IPA link|n̥}} |{{IPA link|ɲ̊}} | | |- ! rowspan="2" |Stop !{{small|plain}} |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} |{{IPA link|c}} |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} |- !{{small|aspirated}} |{{IPA link|pʰ}} |{{IPA link|tʰ}} |{{IPA link|cʰ}} |{{IPA link|kʰ}} | |- ! colspan="2" |Fricative |{{IPA link|f}} |{{IPA link|s}} | | |{{IPA link|h}} |- ! rowspan="2" |Approximant !{{small|voiced}} |{{IPA link|w}} |{{IPA link|l}} |{{IPA link|j}} | | |- !{{small|voiceless}} | |{{IPA link|l̥}} |{{IPA link|j̊}} | | |- ! colspan="2" |Trill | |{{IPA link|r}} | | | |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+Blang vowels ! rowspan="3" | ! colspan="2" |Front ! colspan="4" |Back |- class="small" ! colspan="4" |unrounded ! colspan="2" |rounded |- !{{Small|plain}} !{{Small|breathy}} !{{Small|plain}} !{{Small|breathy}} !{{Small|plain}} !{{Small|breathy}} |- !Close |{{IPA link|i}} |{{IPA link|i̤}} |{{IPA link|ɯ}} |{{IPA link|ɯ̤}} |{{IPA link|u}} |{{IPA link|ṳ}} |- !Close-mid |{{IPA link|e}} |{{IPA link|e̤}} | | |{{IPA link|o}} |{{IPA link|o̤}} |- !Open-mid | | | | |{{IPA link|ɔ}} |{{IPA link|ɔ̤}} |- !Open |{{IPA link|a}} |{{IPA link|a̤}} | | | | |} Blang also has two tones - high and low.

== See also == *Wa language

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Sources == {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |last=Li |first=Daoyong 李道勇 |title=Bùlǎngyǔ jiǎnzhì |last2=Nie |first2=Xizhen 聂锡珍 |last3=Qiu |first3=Efeng 邱锷锋 |date=1986 |publisher=Minzu chubanshe |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:布朗语简志 |trans-title=A Sketch of Blang}} * {{Cite thesis |last=Harper |first=Jero Alan |title=Phonological Descriptions of Plang spoken in Man Noi, La Gang, and Bang Deng Villages (in China) |date=2009 |degree=MA |publisher=Payap University |url=http://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Jerod_Harper_Thesis.pdf |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809082609/http://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Jerod_Harper_Thesis.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-09}} {{refend}}

== External links == * [http://www.humancomp.org/puivax/wa_links.htm Some links to Wa-related Internet sites] * http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9BBE-B@view Samtao in RWAAI Digital Archive * Recordings of 'Pang' are available in the Xuan Guan Collection of Kaipuleohone archive

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