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, Duota is spoken in Mili 咪哩乡 and Yangchajie 羊岔街乡 townships (Yuxi 1992:97). Duota is classified as a Haoni language in Yuxi (1992:97), along with Asuo and Budu of Yinyuan Town 因远镇. Li & Minta (2016:157-182) classify the Duota language of Mili Village, Mili Township 咪哩乡, Yuanjiang County as belonging to the Haoni- Baihong language cluster, and include a word list of Duota transcribed using Chinese characters. The Duota are separate from the Duoke 堕课 people of the two hamlets of Xiaogancha 小甘岔 and Xinzhai 新寨元江县咪哩乡甘岔村民委员会新寨
/ref> villages near Mili Village 咪哩村 (Li & Minta 2016:8).

References

*You Weiqiong ��伟琼 2013. ''Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan'' ��南民族识别研究 Beijing: Nationalities Press ��族出版社 *Li Kaidong ��凯冬 Minta Minji ��塔敏吉 2016. ''Zhongguo Yuanjiang Hanizu Duotaren wenhua shilu'' ��国元江哈尼族多塔人文化实录 Kunming: Yunnan People's Press ��南人民出版社 Southern Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan {{st-lang-stub