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Man Met language

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Native to
  
China

Native speakers
  
(900 cited 1990)

Region
  
Southwest Yunnan

Language family
  
Austroasiatic Palaungic Angkuic Man Met

ISO 639-3
  
Either: mml – Man Met kfj – Kemie (duplicate code)

Glottolog
  
kemi1240  (Kemiehua) manm1238  (Man Met)

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), 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).

  • Jinghong Township 景洪镇
  • Xiaomanmi 小曼咪村 (58 households, 256 persons)
  • Damanmi 大曼咪村 (53 households, 234 persons)
  • Jiangtou Manmi 江头曼咪村 (33 households, 124 persons)
  • Manmi 曼咪村 (man13 met53) of Gadong Township 嘎东乡 (51 households, 228 persons)
  • Sanjia 三家村 of Mengyang Township 勐养镇 (46 households, 200 persons)

    • References

    Man Met language Wikipedia
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