Maang language

Maang
Mo'ang
Native to	China
Region	Funing County, Yunnan
Ethnicity	Yi
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Maang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	maan1239[2]

Maang (Chinese: 么昂语; autonym: maːŋ˧ or mӕ̱aŋ˧) or Mo'ang (Chinese: 末昂语; autonym: mɯaŋ˥˩) is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshen Prefecture, Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. The Maang are also locally referred to as the Gāokùjiǎo Yí (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1).

Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese.

Distribution

Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages.

• Banlun township 板仑乡, Funing County, Yunnan
  • Longyang 龙洋^[3] (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Longmai 龙迈^[4]
  • Mula 木腊^[5] (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Gongjinwei 公金渭^[6]
  • Kela 克拉^[7]
• Mugan 木甘,^[8] Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents)
• Muxiongping village 木兄坪村,^[9] Muyang town 木央镇
  • Zhilun 直伦^[10][11] (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Upper Muyang 上木羊^[12][13] (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Lower Muyang 下木羊^[14][15] (Maang and Miao residents)
• Xiaomulun 小睦伦,^[16] Muyang town 木央镇 (Han Chinese, Maang, and Yao residents)
• Ligong 里拱,^[17] Lida town 里达镇, Funing County, Yunnan (also 12 other villages in Lida town 里达镇)
• The villages of Zhechang 者长, Dana 达那, Nianbi 念必 in Napo County, Guangxi province

There are 713 households and 4,079 individuals according to a 2003 estimate by the Funing County government (Zhou 2014:1).

References

1. Wu Zili (1993)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238706
4. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238704
5. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vindex.aspx?departmentid=238705
6. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238817
7. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238725
8. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=268756
9. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206596
10. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206610
11. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206609
12. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206604
13. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206603
14. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206605
15. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206607
16. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206659
17. http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=259546

• 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.
• Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington (archived)
• Wu Zili [武自立]. 1993. A preliminary study of the Mo'ang language of Funing County, Yunnan Province [云南富宁未昂话初探]. Minzu Yuwen 2. http://wuxizazhi.cnki.net/Search/MZYW199302009.html
• Zhou Decai [周德才]. 2014. A study of Mo'ang [末昂语研究]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社].

External links

• Mo'ang numerals