Meuma (
autonym
Autonym may refer to:
* Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym
* Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name
See also
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
: ') is a
Loloish
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China. They are most closely related to Burmese and its relat ...
language spoken in Xinzhai 新寨,
麻栗坡县大坪镇马达村委会新寨自然村
/ref> Mada Village 马达村, Daping Township 大坪镇, Malipo County
Malipo County (, vi, Ma Lật Pha) is under the administration of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China, bordering Ha Giang Province to the southeast.
Administrative divisions
In the presen ...
, Yunnan. There are several semi-fluent elderly speakers, with no fluent speakers left.[Hsiu, Andrew. 2013. ]
New endangered Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China: Mondzish, Longjia, Pherbu, and others
'. Presented at ICSTLL 46, Dartmouth College.
The Meuma are also called Mengwu 孟武 by the Han Chinese (''Malipo County Gazetteer'' 麻栗坡县志 (2000)).
Classification
Meuma is most closely related to Samu, Sanie, and Katso of central Yunnan, thus belonging to Lama's Kazhuoish branch (Hsiu 2013, 2017).
References
Sources
*Hsiu, Andrew. 2013.
New endangered Tibeto-Burman languages of southwestern China: Mondzish, Longjia, Pherbu, and others
'. Presented at ICSTLL 47, Dartmouth College.
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Loloish languages