Maang language

Maang (Chinese: 么昂语; autonym: maːŋ33 or mӕ̠aŋ33) or Mo'ang (Chinese: 末昂语; autonym: mɯaŋ51) is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshan 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. Maang has many Zhuang (Central Tai) loanwords (Wang 2018).

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^[2] (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Longmai 龙迈^[3]
  • Mula 木腊^[4] (Maang, Zhuang, and Han Chinese residents)
  • Gongjinwei 公金渭^[5]
  • Kela 克拉^[6]
• Mugan 木甘,^[7] Niuchang village 牛场村, Lida town 里达镇 (Maang, Zhuang residents)
• Muxiongping village 木兄坪村,^[8] Muyang town 木央镇
  • Zhilun 直伦^[9][10] (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Upper Muyang 上木羊^[11][12] (Maang and Miao residents)
  • Lower Muyang 下木羊^[13][14] (Maang and Miao residents)
• Xiaomulun 小睦伦,^[15] Muyang town 木央镇 (Han Chinese, Maang, and Yao residents)
• Ligong 里拱,^[16] 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

• 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.
• Hsiu, Andrew. 2017. Meang audio word list. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1123373
• Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington (archived)
• Wang, Zhanling 王战领. 2018. Mo'angyu de xishu ji qi yuyan jiechu 末昂语的系属及其语言接触. Journal of Honghe University 期红河学院学报, Vol.16　No.2, Apr. 2018. doi:10.13963/j.cnki.hhuxb.2018.02.010
• 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