Muji language

Not to be confused with Moji language or Muzi language.
Muji
Bokha
Native to China
Native speakers
55,000 (2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
ymc  Southern Muji
ymq  Qila Muji
ymx  Northern Muji (Bokha)
ybk  Bokha (Black Muji)
ypm  Phuma (Black Muji)
Glottolog core1246[2]

Muji, or Bokha, is a Loloish language cluster spoken by the Phula people of China. It is one of several such languages to go by the name Muji.

The representative Southern Muji dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Pujiazhai 普家寨, Adeke Township 阿德博乡, Jinping County.

Qila Muji is spoken the following 3 villages (Pelkey 2011:166).

Phonology

Qila dialect has velar lateral affricates /kʰ, k, ɡʟ̝/ (Pelkey 2011: 243).

References

  1. Southern Muji at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
    Qila Muji at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
    Northern Muji (Bokha) at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Core Muji". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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