Muya
A language of China
| Population | 13,000 (2000 H. Sun). About 2,000 are monolingual. |
| Region | West central Sichuan, Kangbo (Kangding) and Jiulong (Gyaisi) in the Ganzi (Garzê) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and Simian (Shimian) County in the Ya’an District. |
| Alternate names | Boba, Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak, Miyao, Munya |
| Dialects | Eastern Muya, Western Muya. Dialects reportedly not mutually inherently intelligible. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Tangut-Qiang, Qiangic |
| Language use | All domains. Eastern Muya: all ages. Western Muya: mainly older adults. Neutral attitude. 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 | Dictionary. Grammar. |
| Comments | Classified as Tibetan nationality. ‘Muyak’ may be an alternate name. SOV; adjectives and number-classifier constructions follow noun heads; compounding; affixation; reduplication; consonant cluster onsets; tense-lax vowel distinction; nasalized vowels; tonal, 4 tones. Animal husbandry: pigs, chickens, sheep, cattle; agriculturalists. Lamaist, traditional religion. |
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