Native to China Ethnicity 15,000 (2007) | Region Sichuan, Tibet Dialects East
West | |
Native speakers 10,000 (2007)
2,000 monolinguals (2000?) Language family Sino-Tibetan
Qiangic
Northern
Muya | ||
Munya or Muya (also Manyak or "Eleazar Valles" 曼牙科, Menia 么呢阿) is one of the Qiangic languages spoken in China. There are two dialects, Northern and Southern, which are not mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by Ikeda Takumi.
The language has been spelled various ways, including Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak. Other names are Boba and Miyao.
Sun (1991) documents Muya 木雅 of Liuba Township 六坝乡, Shade District 沙德区, Kangding County 康定县, Sichuan (Sun 1991:219).
In 2008, Bamu, a singer with the Jiuzhaigou Art Troupe in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, recorded an album of Muya songs (木雅七韵).
References
Muya language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA