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Muji language

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Native to
  
China

Glottolog
  
core1246

Native speakers
  
55,000 (2007)

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Loloish Southeastern Highland Phula Muji languages Core Muji Muji

ISO 639-3
  
Variously: ymc – Southern Muji ymq – Qila Muji ymx – Northern Muji (Bokha) ybk – Bokha (Black Muji) ypm – Phuma (Black Muji)

Muji, or Bokha, 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.

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 the following 3 villages (Pelkey 2011:166).

  • Qila 期腊, 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 Chau Province, Vietnam

    • Phonology

    Qila dialect has velar lateral affricates /kʰ, k, ɡʟ̝/ (Pelkey 2011: 243).

    References

    Muji language Wikipedia
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