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Baima language | Wikipedia audio article
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Baima (autonym: pe53) is a language spoken by 10,000 Baima people, of Tibetan nationality, in north central Sichuan Province, and Gansu Province, China. Baima is passed on from parents to children in Baima villages. It is spoken within the home domain and is not used in any media of mass communication. Baima is often classified as a Sino-Tibetan dialect and is currently endangered.
In terms of geographical locations, Baima is spoken in:
Pingwu County, Mianyang, Sichuan 四川
Baimaguhe 白马谷河, Wen County 文县, Gansu 甘肃
Wujiao 物角村, Jiuzhaigou County 九寨沟县, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan 四川Baima uses subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, initial consonant word clusters and is tonal. It is unclassified within Sino-Tibetan; there are multiple layers of borrowings from Amdo, Khams, and Zhongu Tibetan, as well as lexical and grammatical connections with Qiangic languages. Basic vocabulary is about 85% Tibetic and 15% Qiangic, and the Tibetic words do not link to any established group of Tibetic languages. Chirkova (2008) suggests that the Qiangic vocabulary might be a retention from the language originally spoken by the Báimǎ before their shift to a form of Tibetic in the 7th century. She accepts Baima as Tibetan, but as an isolate within the Tibetic languages.
2008 Sichuan earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:33 1 Geology
00:07:12 1.1 Tectonics
00:13:27 1.2 Intensities and damage area
00:18:56 1.3 Aftershocks
00:20:31 2 Damage and casualties
00:21:29 2.1 Extent of the tremors
00:23:58 2.2 Immediate aftermath
00:31:03 2.3 Casualties
00:36:28 2.4 Property damage
00:39:53 2.5 Later casualties
00:42:27 2.5.1 Government data
00:43:27 3 Rescue efforts
00:55:11 3.1 Quake lakes
00:57:30 4 Domestic reactions
01:03:06 5 Collapse of schoolhouses
01:13:36 6 Foreign and domestic aid
01:14:15 6.1 Mainland China
01:17:27 7 First anniversary
01:18:16 8 Completion of works
01:19:53 9 Precursors and postmortems
01:26:08 10 See also
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The 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Chinese: 汶川大地震; pinyin: Wènchuān dà dìzhèn; literally: 'Great Wenchuan earthquake'), also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occurred at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008. Measuring at 8.0 Ms (7.9 Mw), the earthquake's epicenter was located 80 kilometres (50 mi) west-northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital, with a focal depth of 19 km (12 mi). The earthquake ruptured the fault for over 240 km (150 mi), with surface displacements of several meters. The earthquake was also felt in nearby countries and as far away as both Beijing and Shanghai—1,500 and 1,700 km (930 and 1,060 mi) away—where office buildings swayed with the tremor. Strong aftershocks, some exceeding 6 Ms, continued to hit the area up to several months after the main shock, causing further casualties and damage. The earthquake also caused the largest number of geohazards ever recorded, including about 200,000 landslides and more than 800 quake lakes distributed over an area of 110,000 km2 (42,000 sq mi).Over 69,000 people lost their lives in the quake, including 68,636 in Sichuan province. 374,176 were reported injured, with 18,222 listed as missing as of July 2008. The geohazards triggered by the earthquake are thought to be responsible for at least one third of the death toll. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest in the country since the 1950 Chayu earthquake, which registered at 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. It is the 18th deadliest earthquake of all time. On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it would spend 1 trillion RMB (about US $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake, as part of the Chinese economic stimulus program.