....for their ancient Niger -Congo system proving African/Asian contact and much more recent Sinicization.
Their language,Kuki Thaadou,a Tibeto Burmese language shares many African respects,especially the tonal system,like southern Mianchi,according to a recent Hong Kong uni study: "Here are some excerpts The degrees of African-ness and Chinese-ness are evaluated, and African-style features arefound to be lurking throughout the Qiangic family. Similarities of word structure and wordlength between African and Qiangic languages are held responsible for the similarities.....
A close inspection of the tone system of the Mianchi dialectof Southern Qiang (SQ) shows that its tone system behaves more like a prototypical Africanlanguage than it does like Chinese, even though the tone system arose under heavy influence......
As this paper was nearing completion, I was made aware of Hyman (2007 [forthcoming]),in which African tonal features are reported in Kuki-Thaadow, another Tibeto-Burman language........"
http://http://www.academia.edu/23219...the_Sinosphere
What's interesting is that older 100 year old pix taken during the Brit colonial period show strongly Africoid Kuki Thaadou people. Look!
But now-look!
All over,we the Originals have been assimilated,driven out and also whitened by Caucasians and Asians;but a deeper investigation will reveal ourselves.
Their language,Kuki Thaadou,a Tibeto Burmese language shares many African respects,especially the tonal system,like southern Mianchi,according to a recent Hong Kong uni study: "Here are some excerpts The degrees of African-ness and Chinese-ness are evaluated, and African-style features arefound to be lurking throughout the Qiangic family. Similarities of word structure and wordlength between African and Qiangic languages are held responsible for the similarities.....
A close inspection of the tone system of the Mianchi dialectof Southern Qiang (SQ) shows that its tone system behaves more like a prototypical Africanlanguage than it does like Chinese, even though the tone system arose under heavy influence......
As this paper was nearing completion, I was made aware of Hyman (2007 [forthcoming]),in which African tonal features are reported in Kuki-Thaadow, another Tibeto-Burman language........"
http://http://www.academia.edu/23219...the_Sinosphere
What's interesting is that older 100 year old pix taken during the Brit colonial period show strongly Africoid Kuki Thaadou people. Look!
But now-look!
All over,we the Originals have been assimilated,driven out and also whitened by Caucasians and Asians;but a deeper investigation will reveal ourselves.