Social:Maza language

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Short description: Lolo-Burmese language of China
Maza
Native toChina
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
50 (2014)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Mondzish
      • Maza
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmaza1306[2]

Maza (autonym: ma33 zɑ53) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by the Yi people of China.

Maza is spoken by about 50 people in the village of Mengmei 孟梅 (Maza: qʰa33 le55), Puyang Village 普阳村, Muyang Township 木央乡, Funing County, Yunnan. Maza has a Qabiao substratum, since the area was originally inhabited by Qabiao speakers (Hsiu 2014:68-69). Maza displays circumfixal negation, a syntactic feature that is usually typical of Kra languages.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Maza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/maza1306.