Social:Mondzi language

Mondzi
Native to	China
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	(2,000? cited 1983)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Mondzi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mond1267

Mondzi (Munji; autonym: mo21 ndʑi21) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by the Yi people of China. Speakers are located mostly in Funing County, Yunnan, China and Hà Giang Province, Vietnam.

Phonology

Phonology of Mondzi:

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Alveolo-palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n			(ŋ)
Plosive	prenasalized	mb	nd			ŋg
	voiced	b	d			g
	voiceless	p	t			k
	aspirated	ph	th			kh
Affricate	prenasalized		nʣ	ɳdʐ	ȵʥ
	voiced		ʣ	dʐ	ʥ
	voiceless		ʦ	tʂ	ʨ
	aspirated		ʦh	tʂh	ʨh
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	ʂ	ɕ	x
	voiced	v	z	ʐ	ʑ	ɣ
Lateral			l

[ŋ] can only appear as a coda.

Mondzi also has 3 consonant clusters: [lg], [lk], [lkh].

Vowels

Monophthongs

		Front		Non-front
		unrounded	rounded
Syllabic Consonant	loose			ɿ
	tight			ɿ̠
Close		i		u
Close-mid		e	ø	o
Open-mid		ɛ		ɔ
Open		a		ɑ

Diphthongs

	a	e	e̠	ɛ	ɛ̠	o	ɔ	u	i	ɑ
i	ia	ie	ie̠	iɛ	iɛ̠	io	iɔ	iu
y									yi
u		ue							ui	uɑ
e									ei

Tones

IPA	Tone Value
˥˥	55
˦˦	44
˧˧	33
˥˧	53
˨˩	21
˩˧	13

References

• 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.

Further reading

• YYFC (1983) [handwritten manuscript], cited in Lama (2012)