Mien (Van Ban)

Audio recordings: Andrew Hsiu. (2017). Mien (Van Ban) audio word list. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1123324

Transcribed word list (selected words): Hsiu, Andrew. 2017. Mienic lexical isogloss database. m.s.

On February 6, 2014, I interviewed an "I Mien" (i⁵⁵mien⁵¹) man called Đặng Văn Tuấn of Thôn 5, Khe Phàn, xã Sân Thủy in Van Ban District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. A young girl about 6 years old or so was writing down a word list of Mien in Vietnamese orthography while I was doing a vocabulary elicitation session with the man, which I had also photographed.

This Mien dialect is similar to the Kim Mien dialect recorded by Jerold Edmondson in that Proto-Mien voiceless laterals and voiceless nasals have changed to h-.