Maang language
| Maang | |
|---|---|
| Mo'ang | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Funing County, Yunnan |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | unknown (5,000 cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
maan1239[2] |
Maang (Chinese: 么昂话; autonym: maːŋ˧ or mӕ̱aŋ˧) or Mo'ang (Chinese: 未昂话; autonym: mɯaŋ˥˩) is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshen Prefecture, Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. The Maang are also locally referred to as the Gaokujiao Yi (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1).
Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese.
Distribution
Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages.
- Banlun township 板仑乡, Funing County, Yunnan
- Mugan 木甘,[8] Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents)
- Muxiongping village 木兄坪村,[9] Muyang town 木央镇
- Xiaomulun 小睦伦,[16] Muyang town 木央镇 (Han Chinese, Maang, and Yao residents)
- Ligong 里拱,[17] Lida town 里达镇, Funing County, Yunnan (also 12 other villages in Lida town 里达镇)
- The villages of Zhechang 者长, Dana 达那, Nianbi 念必 in Napo County, Guangxi province
There are 713 households and 4,079 individuals according to a 2003 estimate by the Funing County government (Zhou 2014:1).
References
- ↑ Wu Zili (1993)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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- Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.
- Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington (archived)
- Wu Zili [武自立]. 1993. A preliminary study of the Mo'ang language of Funing County, Yunnan Province [云南富宁未昂话初探]. Minzu Yuwen 2. http://wuxizazhi.cnki.net/Search/MZYW199302009.html
- Zhou Decai [周德才]. 2014. A study of Mo'ang [末昂语研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社].
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