Social:Muji language

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Short description: Loloish language cluster of China
Muji
Bokha
Native toChina
Native speakers
55,000 (2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Loloish
      • Southeastern
        • Highland Phula
          • Muji languages
            • Core Muji
              • Muji
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ymc – Southern Muji
ymq – Qila Muji
ymx – Northern Muji (Bokha)
ybk – Bokha (Black Muji)
ypm – Phuma (Black Muji)
Glottologcore1246[2]

Muji or Muzi is a Loloish language cluster spoken by the Phula people of China . It is one of several such languages to go by the name Muji. Muji varieties are Northern Muji, Qila Muji, Southern Muji, and Bokha–Phuma.[3]

The representative Southern Muji dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Pujiazhai (普家寨), Adebo Township (阿德博乡), Jinping County.

Qila Muji is spoken in the following three villages:[4]

  • Qila (期腊[5]) Laojizhai Township (老集寨乡), southern Jinping County, China
  • Wantan, Jinshuihe Township 金水河镇, southern Jinping County, China
  • Muong Gong, northwestern Lai Châu Province, Vietnam

Phonology

Qila dialect has velar lateral affricates /k𝼄ʰ, k𝼄, ɡʟ̝/.[6]

References

  1. Southern Muji at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
    Qila Muji at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
    Northern Muji (Bokha) at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Core Muji". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/core1246. 
  3. Pelkey (2011).
  4. Pelkey (2011), p. 166.
  5. "Jīnpíng Miáozú Yáozú Dǎizú Zìzhìxiàn Jīnshuǐhé Zhèn Lǎoliú Cūnwěihuì Qílà Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=188162. 
  6. Pelkey (2011), p. 243.

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