Buyi language

Buyi language used by Buyi people belongs to the Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, which is actually the same language as the northern dialect of Zhuang language.

Due to the long-term cultural contact and exchange between Buyi and Han, there are a large number of Chinese loanwords in Buyi vocabulary system. Buyi language has a complete phonetic system, rich vocabulary and expressive grammatical structure. Although the Buyi nationality has a large population and a wide living area, its language is only divided into dialects, regardless of dialects. Buyi language is relatively consistent internally, with little difference, and can be roughly divided into three dialect areas according to phonetic characteristics.

First mother tongue area

The population is the largest, mainly distributed in southwestern Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and southern Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and it can directly talk with Guibian dialect and Guibei dialect of Zhuang language in northern Guangxi. The standard phonetic point of Buyi language is Wangmo Buyi language in the first mother tongue area.

Second mother tongue area

Secondly, users are mainly distributed in Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Guiyang suburbs. They can talk directly with the first dialect area, which is very close to the Zhuang language in northern Guangxi.

Third mother tongue area

The population is the least, mainly distributed in Zhenning, Guanling, Ziyun, Qinglong, Pu 'an, Liuzhi, Panxian, Shuicheng, Bijie and Weining in Guizhou Province. The pronunciation of this dialect area has its own unique characteristics, but it can also communicate with the first dialect and the second dialect.

On March 3, 20 12, experts and scholars of Buyi and Zhuang culture reached a "Wangmo Consensus" and decided to make joint efforts to open a "Buyi-Zhuang satellite channel" to protect and inherit the precious mother tongue culture shared by the two ethnic groups.