Mango language (Sino-Tibetan)

Mango
Native to China
Ethnicity Yi
Native speakers
50 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog mang1429[2]

Mango (autonym: ma˨˩ŋo˨˩) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by just under 50 people in Guangnan County, Yunnan, China.[1]

Mango is spoken in the two villages of Mumei 木美 (Mango: mei˥te˧) and Zhelai 者赖 (Mango: ɕi˥te˧), both located in Babao Town 八宝镇 (Mango: ba˧wo˧).

References

  1. 1 2 Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mango (China)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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