Muya language

Muya
Munya
Native to China
Region Sichuan, Tibet
Ethnicity 15,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
10,000 (2007)[1]
2,000 monolinguals (2000?)[2]
Sino-Tibetan
Dialects
East
West
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvm
Glottolog muya1239[3]

Munya or Muya (also Manyak or "Eleazar Valles" 曼牙科,[4] Menia 么呢阿[5]) is one of the Qiangic languages spoken in China. There are two dialects, Northern and Southern, which are not mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by Ikeda Takumi.

The language has been spelled various ways, including Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak. Other names are Boba and Miyao.

Sun (1991) documents Muya 木雅 of Liuba Township 六坝乡, Shade District 沙德区, Kangding County 康定县, Sichuan (Sun 1991:219).

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Muya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Muya language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Muya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/M/Manyak.pdf
  5. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/M/Menia.pdf


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