Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Buyang (Chinese: 布央语) is a Tai–Kadai language spoken in Guangnan and Funing counties, Yunnan Province, China by the Buyang people. It is important to the reconstruction of Austro-Tai as it retains the disyllabic roots characteristic of Austronesian languages. Examples are /matɛ́/ \"to die\", /matá/ \"eye\", /qaðù/ \"head\", and /maðû/ \"eight\". (See Austro-Tai for proposed connections.)The Buyang language was only recently discovered in 1990 by Chinese linguist Liang Min. In 1999, a doctoral dissertation and book was published for Buyang. The book has also recently been translated into English.Many speakers of Buyang are also fluent in Zhuang."@en }
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- Buyang_language abstract "Buyang (Chinese: 布央语) is a Tai–Kadai language spoken in Guangnan and Funing counties, Yunnan Province, China by the Buyang people. It is important to the reconstruction of Austro-Tai as it retains the disyllabic roots characteristic of Austronesian languages. Examples are /matɛ́/ \"to die\", /matá/ \"eye\", /qaðù/ \"head\", and /maðû/ \"eight\". (See Austro-Tai for proposed connections.)The Buyang language was only recently discovered in 1990 by Chinese linguist Liang Min. In 1999, a doctoral dissertation and book was published for Buyang. The book has also recently been translated into English.Many speakers of Buyang are also fluent in Zhuang.".