Native speakers (900 cited 1990) | ||
Language family AustroasiaticPalaungicAngkuicMan Met ISO 639-3 Either:mml – Man Metkfj – 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).
References
Man Met language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA