Study on the Inheritance and Development Direction of the Language of the Bai Nationality

This paper intends to look at the problem of language inheritance from a dynamic perspective and decompose language inheritance into stages of “someone is currently using a language”, “someone is currently learning a language”, and “someone will learn and use language in the future”. If it is consistent with all three stages, “inheritance” is considered as being completed. This paper makes a field investigation of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. With the interview, observation, questionnaire survey, and structuralist analysis methods, the characteristics of the vocabulary of the southern dialect of the language of the Bai nationality were summarised, and suggestions were given for the future development of the language of the Bai nationality.