Muda (木达 or 母打) is a
Loloish language of
China
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There are over 2,000 Muda speakers in Nanlianshan Village Community 南联山村委会 (formerly Nanlianshan District, 南联山乡, now part of Gasa Township 嘎洒镇),
Jinghong City, Yunnan, China (Xu 1991).
[Xu Shixuan ��世璇(1991)]
缅彝语几种音类的演变
''Minzu Yuwen''.
Classification
Xu (1991) classifies Muda as a Ha-Ya language (see ''
Hani languages'').
Hsiu (2018)
[Hsiu, Andrew. 2018]
Classifications of some lesser-known Lolo-Burmese languages
classifies Muda as an
Akha language containing a
Bisoid substratum, with the substrate language being an early split from Bisoid. Muda has Cl- consonant clusters like various
Bisoid languages,
Siloid languages, and
Jinuo, while words of Bisoid origin include 'leg', 'house', and 'smoke'.
Phonology
Muda has the complex consonant onsets (Xu 1991:34).
Vocabulary
The following vocabulary of Muda is from Xu (1991).
References
*Xu Shixuan
��世璇(1991). "Several types of sound changes in Lolo-Burmese languages
��彝语几种音类的演变" In ''Minzu Yuwen'' 1991(3), 34-41.
*http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/M/Muda.pdf
{{Lolo-Burmese languages
Southern Loloish languages
Languages of Yunnan