The Hlai languages ( Chinese : 黎语 ; pinyin : Líyǔ ) are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan in China by the Hlai people , not to be confused with the colloquial name for the Leizhou branch of Min Chinese ( Chinese : 黎话 ; pinyin : Líhuà ). They include Cun , whose speakers are ethnically distinct. A quarter of Hlai speakers are monolingual. None of the Hlai languages had a writing system until the 1950s, when the Latin script was adopted for Ha.
11-518: [REDACTED] Look up lic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. LIC is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to: Hlai language (an ISO639-3 code: lic) Laudetur Iesus Christus , a Roman Catholic greeting Abbreviation for license Licentiate , a degree Life Insurance Corporation , an Indian government-owned corporation LIC or Love Insurance Corporation , working title for
22-928: A multinational dairy farming technology co-operative headquartered in New Zealand Local Interstellar Cloud , an interstellar cloud Long Island City , a neighborhood in Queens, New York City Low intensity conflict , in warfare Low-income country , a form of categorizing a country's level of development Lugar de Importancia Comunitaria , name for Site of Community Importance in Spain See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "l-i-c" or "lic" on Misplaced Pages. LICS (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with LIC All pages with titles containing LIC All pages with titles beginning with lic Topics referred to by
33-403: Is administratively divided into township-level units (see the list ). The main urban area of Dongfang (i.e., what used to be called "the county seat", when Dongfang was a county) is the town of Basuo . The former county of Ganen ( postal : Kumyan, Kanem or Kamyan) is now part of the city. Dongfang has a tropical wet and dry climate ( Köppen Aw ). Monsoonal influences are strong, and
44-741: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hlai language Norquest (2007) classifies the Hlai languages as follows. Individual languages are highlighted in bold. There are some 750,000 Hlai speakers. Nadou is spoken by approximately 4,000 people in the two villages of Nàdòu 那斗村 (in Xīnlóng Town 新龙镇 ) and Yuè 月村 (in Bāsuǒ Town 八所镇 ), in Dongfang, Hainan . Speakers refer to themselves as lai¹¹ and are officially classified by
55-510: Is one of the seven county-level cities of Hainan province, China. Although called a "city" , Dongfang refers to a large land area in Hainan - an area which was once a county. Within this area is the main city, Dongfang City. It is located on the western coast of Hainan Island facing Vietnam across the Gulf of Tonkin , and in 2004 had a population of 435,000. As all county-level units, Dongfang
66-563: Is very sunny, consistently averaging above 60% of possible sunshine. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 50% in February to 67% in May, the city receives 2,574.3 hours of sunshine annually, a level not seen in the southern half of China outside of Tibet. The average low temperature remains above 26.0 °C (78.8 °F) from May to August，and the region has large tracts of virgin forest, gradually transitioning from desert steppe on
77-478: The Chinese government as ethnic Han Chinese. Jiāmào 加茂 (52,000 speakers) is a divergent Kra-Dai language with a Hlai superstratum and a non-Hlai substratum. The Proto-Hlai language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages. Proto-Hlai reconstructions include those of Matisoff (1988), Thurgood (1991), Ostapirat (2004), and Norquest (2007). The following displays the phonological features of
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99-623: The modern Hlai dialects: Liang & Zhang (1996:18–21) conclude that the original homeland of the Hlai languages was the Leizhou Peninsula , and estimate that the Hlai had migrated across the Hainan Strait to Hainan Island about 4,000 years before present. Dongfang, Hainan Dongfang ( simplified Chinese : 东方 ; traditional Chinese : 東方 ; pinyin : Dōngfāng ; lit. 'the East';)
110-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title LIC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LIC&oldid=1257774067 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
121-410: The two seasons are the wet season and the dry season (November to April), when very little rainfall occurs. Rainfall is heaviest and most frequent from August to October, when typhoons may strike, and averages an annual total of 1,042.1 mm (41.0 in), far lower than much of the island. January through March features the highest relative humidity levels of the year, while May through August
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