Baima language
Encyclopedia
Baima is a language spoken by 11,000 people of Tibetan
nationality in north central Sichuan Province, China
. It has vigorous use amongst adult speakers.
Baima uses subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, initial consonant word clusters and is tonal. There are loan words from Tibetan
and Chinese
.
Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet, which is mostly in the People's Republic of China. They number 5.4 million and are the 10th largest ethnic group in the country. Significant Tibetan minorities also live in India, Nepal, and Bhutan...
nationality in north central Sichuan Province, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. It has vigorous use amongst adult speakers.
Baima uses subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, initial consonant word clusters and is tonal. There are loan words from Tibetan
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
and Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
.