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Jiantang or Gyaitang (Gyälthang) is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Languages

Khams Tibetan and Southwestern Mandarin are the main languages spoken in the town. Selibu is a MandarinTibetan mixed language spoken by approximately 900 ethnic Hui people in the town.[1]

Climate

Jiantang has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with little to no rainfall from November to April and moderate to heavy rainfall from May to October.

Climate data for Jiantang
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 7.4
(45.3)
7.9
(46.2)
10.7
(51.3)
13.5
(56.3)
17.1
(62.8)
18.3
(64.9)
18.4
(65.1)
18.1
(64.6)
16.9
(62.4)
14.6
(58.3)
11.2
(52.2)
8.6
(47.5)
13.6
(56.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) 0.3
(32.5)
1.4
(34.5)
4.2
(39.6)
7.2
(45.0)
11.1
(52.0)
13.5
(56.3)
14.1
(57.4)
13.6
(56.5)
12.3
(54.1)
8.9
(48.0)
4.4
(39.9)
1.4
(34.5)
7.7
(45.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −6.7
(19.9)
−5.1
(22.8)
−2.3
(27.9)
1.0
(33.8)
5.1
(41.2)
8.7
(47.7)
9.9
(49.8)
9.2
(48.6)
7.8
(46.0)
3.3
(37.9)
−2.3
(27.9)
−5.7
(21.7)
1.9
(35.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 5
(0.2)
11
(0.4)
22
(0.9)
36
(1.4)
59
(2.3)
127
(5.0)
194
(7.6)
171
(6.7)
102
(4.0)
61
(2.4)
13
(0.5)
6
(0.2)
807
(31.6)
Source: Climate-Data.org[2]

References

  1. ^ Zhou, Yang; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2021-11-10). "Evidentiality in Selibu". Diachronica. 39 (2). John Benjamins Publishing Company: 268–309. doi:10.1075/dia.19055.zho. ISSN 0176-4225.
  2. ^ "Climate: Jiantang". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
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