Jinuo, Buyuan
A language of China
| Population | 1,000 (1994). Most monolingual. Ethnic population: 18,021 (1990 census). |
| Region | South Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, near Laos and Myanmar borders, east of Jinghong. Youle Mountains. 40 villages. |
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Southwestern China, reference number 5 |
| Alternate names | Buyuan, Jino |
| Dialects | Buyuan and Youle dialects not mutually inherently intelligible. Chinese used for communication. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Burmic, Ngwi, Central |
| Language use | Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Some also use Lu [khb] or Mandarin Chinese [cmn]. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 83%. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Classified as Jinuo nationality. SOV; initial consonant clusters (stop or nasal plus ‘r’); no syllable-final consonants; mostly monosyllabic words; tonal, 6 tones. Agriculturalists: rice; hunter-gatherers traditionally. Worship of Kong Ming (a Chinese hero). |
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