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Mienic

Mienic proper noun: one of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.

Proper noun

Mienic

  1. One of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
    • In reconstruction work, it is common to find a split between Hmongic and Mienic cognate sets, where the Hmongic side has retained the native word, and the Mienic side has replaced the native word with a Chinese borrowing.2006, Thomas D. Cravens, Variation and Reconstruction, →ISBN, page 166
    • Strecker (personal communication) has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex.2010, Martha Ratliff, Meaningful Tone

Origin of Mienic

From Mien + -ic.

Questions about Mienic

What does Mienic mean?
Mienic means one of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
What part of speech is Mienic?
Mienic is a proper noun.

Words near Mienic in the dictionary

  1. mien
  2. Mien-yang
  3. Miena
  4. Mienchih
  5. miened
  6. Mienic
  7. miens
  8. Miensk
  9. Mienyang
  10. Miepoll
  11. Miera

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