Yeheni language

Yeheni
Pingdi Yao
Region	southern Hunan
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese (unclassified) Yeheni
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Yeheni (爷贺尼; Pingdi Yao 平地瑶) is an unclassified Sinitic language spoken by the Yao people in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan. It is spoken in Taoxu Town (涛圩镇) and Helukou Town (河路口镇) in Jianghua County, Hunan.

Vocabulary

The following word list of Yeheni is from Li (2011:325–326).

Chinese gloss	English gloss	Yeheni 爷贺尼	Page
猪	pig	li⁵³	325
拦	to block	li²²	325
干	dry	lie²⁴	325
懒	lazy	li³²	325
弯	crooked, bent	li⁴⁴	325
绿	green	li³⁵	325
子	child	li³³	325
桃子	peach	laə²²li³³	325
绳子	rope	saə²²li³³	325
第三人称	3rd person personal pronoun	ka²²	325
第三人称	3rd person personal pronoun	ku⁴⁴	325
第三人称	3rd person personal pronoun	laə³³	325
聋子	deaf person	loŋ²²li³³ka⁴⁴	325
缺鼻	person with no nose	kʰua⁴⁴pei²⁴laə²²	325
第一	first	tai⁴⁴ji⁴⁴	325
第二	second	tai⁴⁴nai³⁵	325
父亲	father	ta³⁵ta³⁵	326
哥哥	elder brother	kə⁵³kə⁵³	326
妹妹	younger sister	mai²²mai³⁵	326
姐姐	elder sister	tsai³²tsai²⁴	326
五头牛	five cows	ŋoa²²lau²²ŋau²²	326
一个碗	one bowl	ji⁴⁴tʂo⁴⁴aŋ²⁴	326
一双筷	one pair of chopsticks	ji⁴⁴saŋ⁵³ti²⁴	326
一群牛	one herd of cattle	a²⁴tʂaə²²ŋau²²	326
红布	red cloth	ʂo⁴⁴poa³³	326
热水	hot water	nai³⁵su²⁴	326
公牛	bull (male)	ŋau²²koa⁵³	326
母牛	cow (female)	ŋau²²m̩⁵³	326