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).
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Maang | |
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Mo'ang | |
Native to | China |
Region | Funing County, Yunnan |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1982)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | maan1239 |
ELP | Mo'ang |
Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese. Maang has many Zhuang (Central Tai) loanwords (Wang 2018).
Zhou (2014:1-2) reports that Mo'ang is spoken in the following villages.
There are 713 households and 4,079 individuals according to a 2003 estimate by the Funing County government (Zhou 2014:1).
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