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Bouyei / Giay (Yay) Haausqyaix
Native to: China (Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces) Vietnam
Ethnicity: Bouyei, Giay
Native speakers: 2.7 million (2000 census)
Language family: Kra–Dai


is a language spoken by the Bouyei ethnic group of Southern Guizhou Province, China. Classified as a member of the Northern Tai group in the Tai language branch of the Tai–Kadai language family, the language has over 2.5 million native speakers and is also used by the Giay people (Vietnamese: Giáy) in some parts of Vietnam. There are native speakers living in France or the United States as well, which emigrated from China or Vietnam. About 98% of the native speakers are in China.

Bouyei's characteristics are similar to the other members of its language branch. It is generally monosyllabic and word order and particles are the main forms of grammar. Bouyei's syllable initials match up closely to the other Northern Tai languages, with relatively fast simplification and merging. Bouyei sentences can be shown to contain many different levels of phrasing.

The contemporary Bouyei script was developed after the abandonment of the Bouyei-Zhuang Script Alliance Policy in 1981 and was designed from 1981 to 1985. It is focused and phonologically representative and takes the Wangmo County dialect as its foundation.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouyei_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouyei_people
https://omniglot.com/writing/bouyei.htm
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bouy1240

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