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Na-Khi

Na-Khi is the alternative form of Nakhi.

Meaning of Nakhi

Noun

Nakhi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group centered in the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China.
    • I wanted to know if the Nakhi folktales were different, given that they originated in a matriarchal society. Mu Ji Xin. a Nakhi friend, helped me find a collection of tales that had been translated from Nakhi to Chinese.1997, Carolyn Han, Tales from Within the Clouds: Nakhi Stories of China, →ISBN, page x

Questions about Na-Khi

What is Na-Khi the alternative form of?
Na-Khi is the alternative form of Nakhi.

Words near Na-Khi in the dictionary

  1. na'theless
  2. na-adjective
  3. na-adjectives
  4. Na-Dene
  5. Na-Dené
  6. Na-Khi
  7. na-na
  8. na-na na-na boo-boo
  9. na-na na-na na-na
  10. na-nas
  11. na.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Na-Khi (page history and authors); Nakhi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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