Muji or Muzi 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 cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
spoken by the
Phula people
Phula is a village in Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 7,726, in 1,383 households. It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities.
The 1961 census recorded Phula as comprising 21 ...
of
China
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. It is one of several such languages to go by the name ''Muji''. Muji varieties are Northern Muji, Qila Muji, Southern Muji, and Bokha–Phuma.
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 in the following three villages:
*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 Châu Province
Lai or LAI may refer to:
Abbreviations
* Austrian Latin America Institute (Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut)
* ''Latin American Idol'', TV series
* La Trobe University#La Trobe Institute, La Trobe Institute, Melbourne, Australia
* Leaf ...
, Vietnam
Phonology
Qila dialect has velar lateral affricates , , .
References
Further reading
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Loloish languages
Languages of China
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