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Hlai and
The Li ( ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.
* Hlai ( Hainan ; Li ( ) in Chinese )
* Hlai / Li, Lí,

Hlai and people
They refer to themselves as the Hlai people, but they are sometimes colloquially known as " Sai " or " Say ", and during the Sui Dynasty they were known by the name Liliao.
They speak their own Hlai language, a member of the Tai – Kadai language family, but most can understand or speak Hainanese and Mandarin — and it is also common for Li people to learn and speak Cantonese because many Li in Hainan relocate to Cantonese-speaking areas in southern mainland China near Hainan such as Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
* the Li ( Hlai ) and Cun people of China
* The Tai – Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Buyei, the Dai people, the Dong people, and the Hlai ( Li people ).

Hlai and on
Ostapirat also claims that morphological similarities suggest instead that Kra and Kam – Sui be grouped together as Northern Kadai on the one hand, and Hlai with Tai as Southern Kadai on the other ( Ostapirat 2006 ).

Hlai and Hainan
The vast majority of Austronesian languages are non-tonal, but a small number, for example Ma ' ya ( which also has lexical stress ) have developed tone, and also the Tsat language has developed tone probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai / Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.
Unusually for a Malayo-Polynesian language, Tsat has developed into a solidly tonal language, probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai / Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.
As noted by Li and Zhou, Gelao shares much vocabulary with the Hlai and Ong Be languages, suggesting contact with Pre-Hlai speakers before their migration to Hainan.

Hlai and island
Nevertheless, other natives of the island such as Li ( Hlai ) ( 黎族 ), Miao ( 苗族 ), and Utsuls also use the term.

and western
After general population movement toward south, southwest, and southeast ( due in part to influx of northern and western groups such as Huaxia and Donghu ), the tribe of Chiyou split into two smaller splinter tribes, the Miao and the Li ( Chinese: ; pinyin: lí ).

and Dynasty
Li ( ) was frequently used in the Song Dynasty, ans sometimes Lao was also used.

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* Hà, Ho, Vietnamese surname 胡 from Chinese Li ( ) clan of Hồ dynasty, etc.
Bruce Li ( () 小龍 from his real name Ho Chung Tao ( 何宗道 )), Bronson Lee, Bruce Chen, Bruce Lai, Bruce Le (() 小龍 from his real name Wong Kin Lung ), ( 黃建龍 )), Bruce Lei, Bruce Lie, Bruce Liang ( also known as Bruce Leung ), Bruce Ly ( real name Binhslee ), Bruce Thai, Bruce K. A.
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people and living
Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;
Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.
These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.
In 1837, 157 Red River people with more than 200 cattle were living on the reservation at Fort Snelling.
The Lodge, built of hand-hewn virgin spruce, can handle fifty people for dining, sleeping, or lounging in its huge living room.
`` You're not living up to your own principles '', she told my discouraged people.
The burden of Mr. Wesker's message is that people living close to the soil ( at least in England ) are not the happy, fine, strong, natural, earthy people city-bred intellectuals imagine.
The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.
The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.
Do you believe that the people in front of you are living?
* 1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia ( 2010 Census ) are of mixed Japanese-Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it ( full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan ).
According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.
Since the Ainu are not recognized in the official list of the peoples living in Russia, they are counted as people without nationality or as ethnic Russian or Kamchadal.
* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.
The ACT median weekly income for people aged over 15 was in the range $ 600 –$ 699 while the population living outside Canberra was at the national average of $ 400 –$ 499.
* There has been an absolute decrease in the percentage of people in developing countries living below $ 1 per day in east Asia ( adjusted for inflation and purchasing power ).
The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.
The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.
From the 1960s, pieds-noirs ( French citizens living in the north African colonies ), immigrants chiefly from the Maghreb, and continental French people also contributed to the increase.
It had living quarters for people, fish tanks raising Tilapia for protein, a greenhouse watered with fish water and a closed loop sewage reclamation system that recycled human waste into sanitized fertilizer for the fish tanks.

people and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
Let Old Knife come up and kill you and your people, or would you steer him on someone else ''??
And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
My people await you on the shore.
Below, people line the steps, as though on bleachers, to watch the sky and river.
It operated on, by and for the people individually just as did the Federal Constitution.
on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
Sometimes a ship would be sighted and the Caravan pass so close that people could easily be seen on the distant deck.
With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.
He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.
But he is in the middle, an employe of DeKalb, but on the side of the people.
I would like very much, on behalf of my husband and myself, to send our eternal thanks to all the wonderful people responsible for the Gabrielle Fund.
Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.
The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:
The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.
The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov & Co., has shifted the whole attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict.
You have on more than one occasion praised the idea of a televised press conference and the chance it gives the people to form intelligent opinions.

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