Jinxiu ( Chinese : 金秀 ; pinyin : Jīnxiù ; Zhuang : Ginhsiu ) is a county of eastern Guangxi , China, located in an area of relatively high concentrations of the Yao people . It is administered as the Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County of Laibin City. Established in 1952, with the name of Dayaoshan Autonomous Zone , in 1966, it was renamed as Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County. It has an area of 2,517 square kilometres (972 sq mi), much of it mountainous, and a population in 2004 of approximately 150,000.
6-562: The county administers 3 towns and 7 townships: Towns: Townships: Practically isolated from the outside world until the 1930s, Jinxiu was inhabited by five different branches of Yao: Chashan 茶山, Ao 坳, Hualan 花蓝, Pan 盘, and Shanzi 山子. The first three branches (Chashan 茶山, Ao 坳, Hualan 花蓝) were considered the owners of the lands, as the dates of their first arrivals are estimated at around 1,000 years ago. They lived in settled villages and enjoyed some economic stability. The Pan 盘 and Shanzi 山子 are more recent arrivals, and they lived as tenants of
12-586: Is an autonym (self-designated name) that means " mountain people ". All Lakkia dialects have 5 tones . There is currently no consensus on the classification of Lakkia within the Kra–Dai family. Solnit (1988) and Hansell (1988) classify Lakkia as a sister of the Kam–Sui branch. Additionally, Solnit (1988) classifies Biao and Lakkia together as part of a Biao–Lakkia branch that is coordinate to Kam-Sui. However, L.-Thongkum (1992) considers Lakkia to be most closely related to
18-603: The Biao -speaking areas of Northwestern Guangdong Province (L.-Thongkum 1992). Today, they live mostly in the Dayaoshan ( Chinese : 大瑶山 ; lit. 'Big Yao Mountain') region of Jinxiu County . Lakkia people are also known as the Cháshān Yáo 茶山瑶, meaning "Tea Mountain Yao", since they were traditionally considered by neighboring peoples to be ethnic Yao people . The name Lakkia
24-544: The Tai branch, based on the large number of shared lexical items. Norquest (2021) proposes a Biao–Lakkja branch as the first branch to split off from Kra-Dai. Dialects of Lakkia include (L.-Thongkum 1992): The Lingzu dialect still preserves /kl-/ initial clusters, which corresponds to /kj-/ in most other dialects (L.-Thongkum 1992). Additionally, Changdong 长洞 and Jintian 金田 tone /˥˩/ (51) corresponds to Jinxiu 金秀 tone /˨˧˩/ (231). Also, L.-Thongkum (1992) reports that Jintian 金田
30-684: The exonym "Hualan Yao" 花蓝瑶. L.-Thongkum (1993:170) proposes the following classification scheme for the languages of the four Mienic-speaking groups, which go back to what she calls the Proto-Mjuenic language. Lakkja language The Lakkia language ( Chinese : 拉珈语 ; pinyin : Lājiāyǔ ), also spelled Lakkja after its IPA transcription, is a Kra–Dai language spoken in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County , Laibin , East-Central Guangxi , China . Lakkia speakers are thought to have migrated from further east, possibly from
36-525: The other established Yao people, living a nomadic life that did not allow them to accumulate many material possessions. The languages spoken by each five Yao groups are as follows (L.-Thongkum 1993). Unless indicated otherwise, all locations are in Jinxiu County. Additionally, Jiongnai is spoken in Liuxiang 六巷乡, and Longhua 龙化村 of Changdong 长垌乡. Mao Zongwu (2004) notes that Jiongnai speakers are also given
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