Maang (; autonym: ' or ') or Mo'ang (; autonym: ') is a
Lolo-Burmese language of
Wenshan Prefecture
Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China and the easternmost prefecture-level division of the province. It borders Baise, Guangxi to the east, Vietnam's ...
, Yunnan, China and
northern Vietnam
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. The Maang are also locally referred to as the ''Gāokùjiǎo Yí'' (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1).
Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the
Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese. Maang has many
Zhuang (
Central Tai
The Central Tai languages include southern dialects of Zhuang, and various Nung and Tày dialects of northern Vietnam.
Central Tai languages differ from Northern Tai languages in that Central Tai distinguishes unaspirated and aspirated onset ...
) loanwords (Wang 2018).
Distribution
Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages.
*Banlun township 板仑乡,
Funing County, Yunnan
Funing County (; Zhuang language: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the east of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, east and southeast, and ...
**Longyang 龙洋 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
**Longmai 龙迈
**Mula 木腊 (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
**Gongjinwei 公金渭
**Kela 克拉
*Mugan 木甘, Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents)
*Muxiongping village 木兄坪村, Muyang town 木央镇
**Zhilun 直伦 (Maang and Miao residents)
**Upper Muyang 上木羊 (Maang and Miao residents)
**Lower Muyang 下木羊 (Maang and Miao residents)
*Xiaomulun 小睦伦, Muyang town 木央镇 (Han Chinese, Maang, and Yao residents)
*Ligong 里拱,
Village page
Lida town 里达镇, Funing County, Yunnan
Funing County (; Zhuang language: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the east of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, east and southeast, and ...
(also 12 other villages in Lida town 里达镇)
*The villages of Zhechang 者长, Dana 达那, Nianbi 念必 in Napo County
Napo County (; za, Nazboh Yen) is a county in the west of Guangxi, China, bordering Yunnan province to the north and northwest as well as Vietnam's Cao Bằng and Hà Giang provinces to the south and west, respectively. It is under the administra ...
, Guangxi province
There are 713 households and 4,079 individuals according to a 2003 estimate by the Funing County government (Zhou 2014:1).
References
*Hsiu, Andrew. 2014.
Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese
. In ''Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14)''. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
*Hsiu, Andrew. 2017
Meang audio word list
Zenodo.
*Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), ''Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages'', thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
archived
*Wang, Zhanling 王战领. 2018. Mo'angyu de xishu ji qi yuyan jiechu 末昂语的系属及其语言接触. ''Journal of Honghe University'' 期红河学院学报, Vol.16 No.2, Apr. 2018.
*Wu, Zili 自立 1993. A preliminary study of the Mo'ang language of Funing County, Yunnan Province 南富宁未昂话初探 Minzu Yuwen 2. http://wuxizazhi.cnki.net/Search/MZYW199302009.html
*Zhou, Decai 德才 2014. ''A study of Mo'ang'' 昂语研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House 族出版社
External links
Mo'ang numerals
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Mondzish languages