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Maang language

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Native to
  
China

Ethnicity
  
Yi

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
Funing County, Yunnan

Native speakers
  
(5,000 cited 1982)

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Maang

Maang (Chinese: 么昂语; autonym: maːŋ˧ or mӕ̱aŋ˧) or Mo'ang (Chinese: 末昂语; autonym: mɯaŋ˥˩) is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshen Prefecture, Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. The Maang are also locally referred to as the Gāokùjiǎo Yí (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1).

Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese.

Distribution

Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages.

  • Banlun township 板仑乡, Funing County, Yunnan
  • Longyang 龙洋 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Longmai 龙迈
  • Mula 木腊 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Gongjinwei 公金渭
  • Kela 克拉
  • Mugan 木甘, Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents)
  • Muxiongping village 木兄坪村, Muyang town 木央镇
  • Zhilun 直伦 (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Upper Muyang 上木羊 (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Lower Muyang 下木羊 (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Xiaomulun 小睦伦, Muyang town 木央镇 (Han Chinese, Maang, and Yao residents)
  • Ligong 里拱, Lida town 里达镇, Funing County, Yunnan (also 12 other villages in Lida town 里达镇)
  • The villages of Zhechang 者长, Dana 达那, Nianbi 念必 in Napo County, Guangxi province

    • There are 713 households and 4,079 individuals according to a 2003 estimate by the Funing County government (Zhou 2014:1).

    References

    Maang language Wikipedia
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