The Maonan language is a Kam-Sui language spoken mainly in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Hechi, northern Guangxi by the Maonan people.![](static/image/smiley/comcom/1.gif)
毛南语属侗水语支, 主要为广西北部河池市环江毛南族自治县的毛南族所使用。
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Approximately half of all Maonan people are capable of speaking Maonan.(所有毛南人当中,大约一半人能说毛南语。) In addition to this, many Maonan also speak Chinese or Zhuang. (除了能说毛南语,许多毛南人也能说汉语或壮语。)
About 1/3 of all people who self-identify as Maonan are concentrated in the southern Guizhou province. (在自己确认为毛南族的所有人当中,大约三分之一的人聚居在贵州省的南部。)They speak a mutually unintelligible dialect commonly called Yanghuang, which is more common known as the Then language in Western literature. (他们说一种相互间难以交流的方言,通称为佯僙[扬黄]话,即西方文献里较为大家所熟知的“Then Language”。) The Maonan do not have a writing system. (毛南语没有文字书写系统。)
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Maonan is a tonal language with 8 tones (Lu 2008:90–91), featuring an SVO clause construction (Lu 2008:169). (毛南语是有8个调的声调语言[陆天桥《毛南语语法》2008:90–91],具有S[主语]V[动词]O[宾语]句子结构的特征[陆天桥《毛南语语法》2008:169]。)For example, man (he/she) shoot (drink) ka:u (wine) "He/She drinks wine", man (he/she) ba:i (go) hə (market) "He/She goes to the market", etc.(例句如,man [他/她] shoot [喝)]ka:u [酒] “他/她喝酒”;
man [他/她] ba:i [去] hə (市场) “他/她赶圩”,
等等。
[edit编辑] Syntax(句法)
Maonan displays a head-first modification structure, i.e. the modifier occurring after the modifier (Lu 2008:170). (毛南语有着中心词在前的修饰结构,即修饰成分出现在中心词的后面。[陆天桥《毛南语语法》2008:170]。)For example, ka:u (wine) hulia:ng (broomcorn) "broomcorn wine", mu (pig) la:u (big) "big pig", nok (bird) vin (fly) "flying bird", among others. (比如,ka:u [酒] hulia:ng [高粱]“高粱酒”;
mu [猪] la:u [大] “大猪”;nok [鸟] vin [飞],“飞鸟”, 等等。)
Occasionally, a head-final modification structure is also possible with the involvement of a possessive particle (P.P.) di, e.g. ya:n (house/family) nda:u (we/our) di (P.P.) bo (buffalo) "Our family's buffalo" (cf. the more common bo ya:n nda:u) (ibid. pp173–174).(有时,在所有格词“di”介入的情况下,中心词在后的修饰结构也会出现,举例来说,ya:n [房子/家庭] nda:u [我们/我们的] di (P.P.) bo [牛],“我们家的牛”
,[比较常见的
bo ya:n nda:u][出处同上,pp173–174]。)
[edit编辑] References (参考资料)
1. ^ Lu, Tian Qiao (2008). A Grammar of Maonan. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers. ISBN 9781599429717.
1.陆天桥(2008)。《毛南语语法》。伯克莱屯,佛罗里达:宇宙出版社。ISBN 9781599429717。
英文原文出处:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maonan_language. Retrieved on 2011-2-9.
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