Maza (autonym: ma33 zɑ53) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by the Yi people of China.
Maza | |
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Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 50 (2014)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | maza1306 |
Maza is spoken by about 50 people in the village of Mengmei 孟梅 (Maza: qʰa33 le55), Puyang Village 普阳村, Muyang Township 木央乡, Funing County, Yunnan. Maza has a Qabiao substratum, since the area was originally inhabited by Qabiao speakers (Hsiu 2014:68-69). Maza displays circumfixal negation, a syntactic feature that is usually typical of Kra languages.
References
edit- ^ Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.