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Na (or Narua, Mosuo) is a language of the Naish subbranch of the Naic group of the
Sino-Tibetan languages Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
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Varieties

Yongning Na, which is spoken in Yongning Township,
Ninglang County Ninglang Yi Autonomous County (; ii, ꆀꆿꆈꌠꊨꏦꏱꅉꑤ nip lat nuo su zyt jie jux dde xiep) is located in the northwest of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the northeast. It is under the administration of Lijiang ...
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Lijiang Lijiang (), also known as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Gucheng ...
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Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, has been documented by Jacques and Michaud (2011). Lataddi Narua is notable for having only two tonal levels.Dobbs, Roselle, and La Mingqing. 2016 "The two-level tonal system of Lataddi Narua." ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'', Vol. 39:1 (2016), 67–104.


References

Qiangic languages Languages of China {{st-lang-stub