- Source: Linglinghua
Lingling (Chinese: Linghua 伶话 Línghuà or Lingling hua; Lingling: liŋ55 va33) is an unclassified mixed Chinese dialect. It is spoken by 20,000 ethnic Miao in Longsheng County, Guangxi. It is only spoken within the community; with outsiders, Southwestern Mandarin is spoken.
He (2009) covers the Linghua dialect of Taiping (太平村), Pingdeng Township (平等乡), Longsheng County, Guangxi.
A description of the Taipingtang 太平塘村 dialect of Linghua can be found in Wang (2014).
Phonology
= Consonants
== Vowels
=/i, a, ɔ, u, y, ə/
Vocabulary
This section lists sample vocabulary in Linghua from Wang (2014). Translated English glosses have also been provided.
= Pronouns
== Numerals
== Nature
== Body parts
=References
He Danpeng [何丹鵬]. 2009. 廣西龍勝伶話語音的歷史層次研究 [Study of the Longsheng (Guangxi) Linghua phonology and its historical strata]. Ph.D. dissertation. City University of Hong Kong.
Ming studies, 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1990
