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Namuyi (Namuzi; autonym: na54 mʑi54) is a poorly attested Tibeto-Burman and more specifically Naic language of Sichuan and Tibet. It has also been classified as Qiangic by Sun Hongkai (2001) and Guillaume Jacques (2011). The eastern and western dialects have low mutual intelligibility. In Sichuan, it is spoken in Muli County and Mianning County. The language is endangered[2] and the number of speakers with fluency is decreasing year by year, as most teenagers do not speak the language, instead speaking the Sichuan dialect of Chinese.[3]

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Namuzi
Namuyi
Native to	China
Native speakers	5,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese or Qiangic Naic Namuzi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmy
Glottolog	namu1246
ELP	Namuyi
Namuyi is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Geographical distribution

Namuyi is a language spoken in the following four villages of southern Sichuan:[4]

• dʐә11 qu11 (Namuyi name): Dàshuǐ Village 大水村, Mínshèng Township 民胜鄉, Xīchāng City (80 ethnic Namuyi)
• dʑa53 qa53 tu11 (Namuyi name): Хiǎngshuǐ Village 響水村, Xiǎngshuǐ Township 響水鄉, Xīchāng City (800 ethnic Namuyi)
• ɕa11 ma11 khu53 (Namuyi name): Dōngfēng Village 東風村, Zéyuǎn, Township 澤遠鄉, Miǎnníng County (560 ethnic Namuyi)
• ʂa44 pa53 (Namuyi name): Lǎoyā Village 老鴉村, Shābà Town, 沙壩鎮, Miǎnníng County (290 ethnic Namuyi)

It is also spoken in Muli and Yanyuan of the Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture and Jiulong County in the Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture.[4]

Dialects

The Namuyi language is subdivided into two different dialects, the dialect of spoken by the people around Muli, and the dialect of those spoken in Mianning. The dialects differ mainly in phonology, where the Mianning and Yanyuan dialect have few consonant clusters as opposed to the Mianning and Xichang dialect.[5]

Phonology

There are 40 single-consonant initials in the Namuyi language.[5] Namuyi also has ten phonemic vowels, /i/ for [i], /e/ for [e], /ɛ/ for [ɛ], /ɨ/ for [ʃ,ɯ] /ʉ/ for [y], /ə/ for [ə], /a/ for [a], /u/ for [u], /o/ for [o], and /ɔ/ for [ɔ].[3] There is no phonological vowel length, though speakers can lengthen a vowel in the first syllable at times to emphasize a word.[3][6]

		Bilabial		Alveolar		Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
		plain	trilled	plain	trilled
Nasal		m		n			ɲ	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	pʙ	t	tʙ			k	q	(ʔ)
	voiced	b	bʙ	d	dʙ			ɡ	ɢ
	aspirated	pʰ		tʰ				kʰ	qʰ
Affricate	voiceless			t͡s		tʂ	t͡ɕ
	voiced			d͡z		dʐ	d͡ʑ
	aspirated	pʰ͡s, pʰ͡ʂ		t͡sʰ		tʂʰ	t͡ɕʰ
Fricative	voiceless	f		s		ʂ		x	χ
	voiced	v		z		ʐ			ʁ	ɦ
Approximant	voiceless			l̥
	voiced	w		l			j

References

• Li, Jianfu (2017). A Descriptive Grammar of Namuyi Khatho Spoken by Namuyi Tibetans (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/564452.

External links

• ELAR archive of Namuyi language documentation materials

На других языках

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[fr] Namuyi

Le namuyi (ou namuzi, en chinois 纳木兹语 nàmùzīyǔ[3]) est une langue tibéto-birmane parlée en Chine dans la province du Sichuan. Ses locuteurs, au nombre de 4 000, font partie de la nationalité tibétaine. C'est une langue à quatre tons.

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