Mienic

mienić English + languages Etymology From en Mien ic. Proper noun One of two primary branches of the Hmong–Mien language family spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. en 2006 Variation and Reconstruction Thomas D. Cravens 166 902728525X In reconstruction work, it is common to find a split between Hmongic and Mienic cognate sets, where the Hmongic side has retained the native word, and the Mienic side has replaced the native word with a Chinese borrowing. en 2010 Meaningful Tone Martha Ratliff Strecker (personal communication) has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex. en 2012 Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact Björn Wiemer; Bernhard Wälchli; Björn Hansen 3110271974 The same form also occurs as a borrowed copula in some Mienic languages which form part of the Hmong-Mien (formerly Miao-Yao) family of southern China and neighbouring areas (Martha Ratliff, personal communication, but see also Shintani and Zhao 1990 on the use of the form in the Mienic language Mun), and it may have been incorporated into the grammars of other languages in mainland China (and possibly also Taiwan). Anagrams en ceiimn emicin