Muya

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A language of China

ISO 639-3
mvm
Alternate Names
Boba, Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak, Miyao, Munya
Population

10,000 (Bradley 2007), decreasing. About 2,000 are monolingual. Ethnic population: 15,000 (Bradley 2007).

Location

West central Sichuan Province, Kangbo (Kangding) and Jiulong (Gyaisi), Ganzi (Garzê) Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Simian (Shimian) county, Ya’an district.

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Language Status

6b (Threatened).

Classification
Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Northeastern Tibeto-Burman, Qiangic
Dialects

Eastern Muya, Western Muya. Dialects reportedly not mutually inherently intelligible. Loanwords from Tibetan and Chinese.

Typology

SOV; adjectives and number-classifier constructions follow noun heads; compounding; affixation; reduplication; consonant cluster onsets; tense-lax vowel distinction; nasalized vowels; tonal, 4 tones

Language Use

All village domains. All ages. Neutral attitudes. 7,000 also use Chinese [cmn], 3,000 also use Khams Tibetan [khg]. In the west they tend to be more fluent in Tibetan, in the east in Chinese.

Language Development
Videos. Dictionary. OT.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Muya
Other Comments

Officially classified within, and Minyags consider themselves, Tibetan nationality. Proper Tibetan Wylie spelling: Minyag. Buddhist (Lamaist).