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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VŋV
Meaning: to speak
Yenisseian: *b- / *-ŋ- `speak'
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋăH / *ŋăk
Meaning: speak
Tibetan: ŋag, dŋags speech, talk, words.
Burmese: ŋak speak, LB *ŋakx // *ŋax; cf. also ŋra declare, say loudly, cry.
Kachin: ŋa1 to say, speak, declare.
Comments: Cf. also OCh. 諺 *ŋran-s proverb, saying, vulgar talk, 言 *ŋran to speak, 訴 *s-ŋāk-s 'express, declare'; Tib. mŋan-pa swear. Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 137.
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Character: 語
Modern (Beijing) reading: yǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋaʔ
Classic Old Chinese: ŋá
Western Han Chinese: ŋá
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋá
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋó
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋó
Middle Chinese: ŋö́
English meaning : to talk, tell
Russian meaning[s]: слова; язык; фраза; идиом, готовое выражение; пословица; разговаривать, беседовать; [yù] обращаться к..., говорить (кому-л.)
Comments: Also used for *ŋaʔ-s, MC ŋö̀, Pek. yù 'to tell' (LZ). For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen gu3, Chaozhou gɨ3, Fuzhou ŋü3, Jianou ŋü3.
Radical: 149
Four-angle index: 1215
Karlgren code: 0058 t-u
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Chinese Dialects :
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Number: 1912
Character: 語
MC description : 遇合三上語疑
ZIHUI: 6133 1009
Beijing: y 2
Jinan: y 2
Xi'an: y 2
Taiyuan: y 2
Hankou: y 2
Chengdu: y 2
Yangzhou: y 2
Suzhou: ńy 32
Wenzhou: ńy 22
Changsha: y 2
Shuangfeng: ńy 2
Nanchang: ńy 2
Meixian: ńi 11
Guangzhou: jy 22
Xiamen: gu 2
Chaozhou: gɨ 21
Fuzhou: ŋy 2
Shanghai: ńy 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: iu 2
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Borean (approx.) : HVNV
Meaning : to say
Austric : PAN *beŋa 'say, tell'
Notes : PAN may be < ST.
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