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YUNNAN [8 records]

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Record 1 2025-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

The capital city of Yunnan province, located in southwestern China.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Capitale de la province du Yunnan, située dans le sud-ouest de la Chine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
OBS

Capital de la provincia de Yunnan en la República Popular China.

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Record 2 2018-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
OBS

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in parts of Yunnan province in southern China.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
OBS

Langue du groupe tibéto-birman parlée à certains endroits de la province de Yunnan dans le sud de la Chine.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
Universal entry(ies)
Dendrobium nobile
Latin
OBS

A tropical plant of the family Orchidaceae. It was found in the Himalayas, Assam and Yunnan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Dendrobium nobile
Latin
OBS

Plante de serre de la famille des Orchidacées.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A watercourse that flows through the provinces of Qinghai and Yunnan, in China, and where the upper part reaches the Mekong River.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Cours d'eau qui traverse les provinces de Qinghai et Yunnan, en Chine, et dont la partie supérieure rejoint le Mékong.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Silviculture
OBS

Laurel forests or subtropical rain forests, often with Dicotyledonous and Gymnospermous dominants.

CONT

In small villages in remote areas with water buffaloes roaming here and there, one can witness villagers dipping twigs of laurel into fresh water and sprinkling nearly objects to consecrate them, just as Japanese people do in the Shinto purification rite to remove evil. This recalls scenes the late Professor Sasuke Nakao described in his thesis, "The Laurilignosa Culture, "dealing at length with cultural relationships between Japan and the Yunnan district of China.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Sylviculture
OBS

Il s'agit d'espèces ligneuses toujours vertes à feuilles intermédiaires entre celles des Malacophylles sempervirents et celles des Sclérophylles. Elles indiquent un climat relativement océanique et frais, et caractérisent surtout les régions occidentales du Katanga où l'influence océanique est encore ressentie assez fortement.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

City, NE Yunnan, S China

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lahu, a widespread group of peoples inhabiting the hilly regions between the Salween and Mekong rivers in northern Thailand, Laos, southern Yunnan and the Shan states of Burma.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue tibéto-birmane parlée par les Lahu, groupe ethnique dispersé au Yunnan, dans le nord de la Birmanie, de la Thaïlande et du Laos. Cette langue serait proche du yi.

Spanish

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Record 8 1993-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

An extinct Thai language spoken by the Ahom, a tribe that ruled much of Assam from the 13th century and originated in the Chinese province of Yunnan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue thaï, aujourd'hui disparue, parlée par les Ahoms, tribu venant du Yun-nam, province de la Chine méridionale.

Spanish

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