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The Sui language is a Tai–Kadai language spoken by the Sui people of Guizhou province, China. According to Ethnologue, the total number of speakers is around 200,000 as of 1999. Sui is also unique for its rich inventory of consonants, with the Sandong (三洞) dialect having as many as 70 consonants. The language also has its own script, known as Shuishu (水書) in Chinese, and is used for ritual purposes. Some unique features of the Sui language include voiceless nasals (hm, hn), palatal stops, postvelar stops, prenasalized stops (mb, nd), and pre-glottalized stops and nasals (i.e. ʔb, ʔm).
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Names (more)

[en] Sui language
[fr] Sui
[th] ภาษาสุ่ย
[zh] 水語

Language type : Living

Language resources for Sui

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Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:sui [fr]

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ISO 639-3 : swi

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