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The Bouyei language ( autonym: Haausqyaix, also spelled Buyi, Buyei or Puyi; [2] Chinese: 布依语; pinyin: Bùyīyǔ; Vietnamese: tiếng Bố Y or tiếng Giáy) is a language spoken by the Bouyei ethnic group [3] of Southern Guizhou Province, China. Classified as a member of the Northern Tai group in the Tai language branch of the Tai ...
The Bouyei language 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 in some parts of Vietnam.
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Bouyei (Haasqyaix) Bouyei is a member of the northern branch of the Tai-Kadai language family. It has about 2.6 million speakers and is spoken mainly in southern Guizhou Province in China. There are also some Bouyei speakers, who are known as Giáy, in northern Vietnam. Bouyei is also known as Buyi, Puyi, 布依语 (bùyī yǔ) in Chinese, and ...
The Bouyei people have their own language, which belongs to the Zhuang-Dai branch of the Zhuang-Dong group of the Chinese-Tibetan family. This language has no traditional written form and Han characters are widely used, although a written system based upon the Latin alphabet was created with government assistance after 1949.
The Bouyei language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in the Southwestern part of China. There are over 3 million Bouyei in China, and the language is quite vibrant, with the large majority of the ethnic Bouyei speaking Bouyei as their mother tongue. Most Bouyei live in fairly remote village areas, though many live in towns and cities.
Bouyei (Buyi) Nationality. Since the Stone Age the Bouyei ethnic minority have inhabited what is now Guizhou Province. Their main living areas are now Bouyei and the Miao's Autonomous Prefecture, Anshun and Guiyang City. This is a relatively large group with the population of 2,971,460 recorded in the census of 2000. Language:
