Mantsi language
Lolo-Burmese language of China and Vietnam
| Mantsi | |
|---|---|
| mã53 tsi53 | |
| Native to | China, Vietnam |
| Ethnicity | Lo Lo, ethnic population: 4,800 (2019)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,100 (2002)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Dialects |
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Writing system | Yi script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nty – All dialects |
| Glottolog | mant1265 Mantsi |
Mantsi (autonym: mã53 tsi53; also called Lô Lô, Flowery Lolo, White Lolo or Black Lolo, is a Lolo-Burmese language. Speakers are mostly located in Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. In China, speakers are classified as a subgroup of the Yi people. In Vietnam they are called Lô Lô and is classified as one of the official 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Classification
Mantsi may be related to the Kathu (Kasu, Gasu) and Mo'ang (mɯaŋ˥˩) languages of Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China (Edmondson 2003). Lama (2012) concludes that Mantsi (Mondzi) and Maang constitute the most divergent branch of the Lolo-Burmese languages.
Distribution
Monji or Mondzi is reportedly spoken in some villages of Muyang Township, Funing County, Yunnan, China.
Munji is reportedly spoken by the Flowery Yi (Lolo) of Donggan (董干) Town, Malipo County, Yunnan. It is closely related to the Mandzi or Mantsi language of the Flowery Lolo and Black Lolo people of Vietnam and of the White Lolo people of Funing Country. The Red Lolo and Flowery Lolo live across the border in Đồng Văn district, Hà Giang province of Vietnam. Both speak similar languages. The language spoken by the Red Lolo was investigated by Jerold A. Edmondson in the late 1990s.
In Vietnam
The Lô Lô ethnic group of northern Vietnam consists of 3,134 people in Hà Giang and Cao Bằng, also including some in Mường Khương District of Lào Cai Province. They are also known as Mùn Di, Di, Màn Di, La La, Qua La, Ô Man, and Lu Lộc Màn.[2]
- Flowery Lolo
- Hà Giang Province
- Xín Cái, Mèo Vạc District
- Lũng Cù, Đồng Văn District
- Red Lolo
- Hà Giang Province
- Black Lolo
- Bảo Lạc District, Cao Bằng Province
Phonology
Phonology of Mondzi:[4]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿʣ | ⁿdʐ | ⁿʥ | ᵑg |
| voiced | b | d | ʣ | dʐ | ʥ | g | |
| voiceless | p | t | ʦ | tʂ | ʨ | k | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʦʰ | tʂʰ | ʨʰ | kʰ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | |
| voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʑ | ɣ | ||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
[ŋ] can appear only as a coda.
Mondzi also has three consonant clusters: [lg], [lk], [lkʰ].
Vowels
Monophthongs
| Front | Non-front | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| Syllabic | loose | ɿ | ||
| tight | ɿ̠ | |||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | ø | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||
Diphthongs
| a | e | e̠ | ɛ | ɛ̠ | o | ɔ | u | i | ɑ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| i | ia | ie | ie̠ | iɛ | iɛ̠ | io | iɔ | iu | ||
| y | yi | |||||||||
| u | ue | ui | uɑ | |||||||
| e | ei |
Tones
| IPA | Tone value |
|---|---|
| ˥ | 55 |
| ˦ | 44 |
| ˧ | 33 |
| ˥˧ | 53 |
| ˨˩ | 21 |
| ˩˧ | 13 |
References
- ^ a b All dialects at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Người Lô Lô". Trang tin điện tử của Ủy ban Dân tộc (in Vietnamese). 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ^ a b Iwasa, Kazue (2003). "A Wordlist of the Ma Ndzi Language". Descriptive and Theoretical Studies in Minority Languages of East and Southeast Asia. ELPR Publications A3-016. Osaka: ELPR. pp. 69–76.
- ^ Lama (2012)
Further reading
- YYFC (1983) [handwritten manuscript], cited in Lama (2012)
- Edmondson, Jerold A. (2003). Three Tibeto-Burman Languages of Vietnam[permanent dead link]. m.s.
- Hsiu, Andrew (2014). "Mondzish: A New Subgroup of Lolo-Burmese" (PDF). Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica. pp. 62–81.
- Quốc Khánh Vũ (2011). Người Lô Lô ở Việt Nam [The Lo Lo in Vietnam] (in Vietnamese). Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Thông tấn.
- Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation (Ph.D. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. hdl:10106/11161.
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