Mondzish languages
| Mondzish | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Chinese–Vietnamese border |
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| Proto-language: | Man |
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| Glottolog: | mond1269[1] |
Mondzish (Mangish) is a small group of languages that constitute the most divergent branch of the Lolo–Burmese languages in the classification of Lama (2012), who identifies them as the descendents of the Man people (Nánmán).
Mondzish languages are spoken in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China and across the border in Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. According to Hsiu (2014), Kathu is related.
Classification
Hsiu (2014:73) classifies the Mondzish languages as follows.
- Kathu (Thou)
- Nuclear Mondzish (Nuclear Mangish)
Sound changes
Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Mondzish innovations.
- *tsʰ- > s-
- *ɣr- > ʐ-
- *ɣʷ- > b-
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mondzish". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Edmondson, Jerold A. 2003. Three Tibeto-Burman Languages of Vietnam.
- 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.
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