Man Met language

Man Met
Kemie
Native to China
Region Southwest Yunnan
Native speakers
 (900 cited 1990)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mml – Man Met
kfj – Kemie (duplicate code)
Glottolog kemi1240  Kemiehua[2]
manm1238  Man Met[3]

Man Met, or Kemie (Chinese: 克蔑话 Kemiehua), is a poorly classified Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1,000 people in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna, China. It is classified as an Angkuic language by Paul Sidwell (2010). It may be or Mangic according to Li Yunbing (2005),[4] or Palaungic. Like most other Austroasiatic languages, Kemie has subject–verb–object (SVO) word order.

Autonyms include man˩˧ met˥˧ 曼咪, kʰɤ˧˩ met˥˧ 克蔑, and kʰɤ˧˩ miŋ˧ 克敏 (Chen 2005:1), or khaʔ˧ min˧ (Yan & Zhou 2012:154).

Distribution

Kemie is spoken in the following villages by just over 1,000 people (Chen 2005:1).

References

  1. ↑ Man Met at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kemie (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kemiehua". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Man Met". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ 李云兵 / Li Yunbing. 2005. 布赓语研究 / Bugeng yu yan jiu (A Study of Bugeng [Bugan]). Beijing: 民族出版社 / Min zu chu ban she / Ethnic Publishing House
  5. ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=229052
  6. ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=229051
  7. ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=229053
  8. ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=227643
  9. ↑ http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=201718

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