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Longjia Language
Region: China, Guizhou Province
Extinct: 1980s
Language Family:
Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic (Greater Bai)
Longjia language is the native language of the Longjia people, an indigenous people in the western region of Guizhou, China. It is a Sino-Tibetan language, and is closest to two other indigenous languages in the vicinity, Caijia and Luren. And the other language closest to all three of them is Bai in Yunnan Province.
The Longjia language has some features of Old Chinese and also borrows a few words from other ethnic groups (such as the Yi), so the Longjia language cannot communicate with the surrounding Chinese Dialects.
Although the Longjia people were once widely distributed in central and western Guizhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties, their language declined rapidly in modern times and became extinct in the 1980s, leaving only a few linguistic records.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longjia_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Bai_languages
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Greater_Bai_comparative_vocabulary_list
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