Muya language

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Muya
Munya
Native toChina
RegionSichuan, Tibet
Ethnicity15,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
10,000 (2007)[1]
2,000 monolinguals (2000?)[2]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Qiangic
    • Northern
      • Muya
Dialects
  • East
  • West
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
emq – Eastern Minyag
wmg – Western Minyag
Glottologmuya1239
ELPMuya

Munya or Muya (Chinese: 木雅; also Manyak 曼牙科,[3] Menia 么呢阿[4]) is one of the Qiangic languages spoken in China. There are two dialects, Northern and Southern, which are not mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by . There are about 2,000 monolinguals.

Names[]

The language has been spelled in various ways, including Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak. Other names for the language are Boba and Miyao.

Dialects[]

Ethnologue (21st edition) lists two Muya dialects, namely Eastern (Nyagrong) and Western (Darmdo). Muya is spoken in

  • Shimian County, Ya'an
  • Jiulong County
  • Kangding

Sun (1991) documents Muya (木雅) of (六坝乡), (沙德区), Kangding County (康定县), Sichuan.[5]

Popular culture[]

In 2008, Bamu, a singer with the Jiuzhaigou Art Troupe in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, recorded an album of Muya songs (木雅七韵).[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Eastern Minyag at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Western Minyag at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Muya language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  3. ^ "Manyak" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-11-02 – via Asia Harvest.
  4. ^ "Menia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-10 – via Asia Harvest.
  5. ^ Sun (1991), p. 219
  6. ^ Huang, Zhiling (2014-05-27). "Chasing the Fading Music". China Daily USA. One woman's passion for the songs of a remote ethnic people may save not only the Muya's music, but the language itself. Huang Zhiling reports from Chengdu. Muya music might already be lost if Yang Hua had not given up her job as a mathematics teacher." ..."After the recording was over, Bamu told Yang it was a folk song of the Muya people. The song told how a girl working outside her hometown misses her mom, who says jewelry does not mean anything if one is not educated, and the singer wishes her mom good health. "It was the first time I heard the word 'Muya'," Yang says.

Bibliography[]

  • Bai, Junwei (2019). A Grammar of Munya (PhD thesis). James Cook University. doi:10.25903/2SHV-X307.
  • Ikeda, Takumi (1998). "Mùyǎyǔ yǔyīn jiégòu de jǐ gè wèntí" 木雅語語音結構的幾個問題 [Some Phonological Features of Modern Munya (Minyak) Language]. Nairiku Ajia Gengo no Kenkyuu 内陸アジア言語の研究 (in Chinese). 13: 83–91. hdl:11094/16189.
  • Ikeda, Takumi (2002). "On Pitch Accent in the Mu-Nya Language" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 25 (2): 27–45.
  • Sun, Hongkai, ed. (1991). Zàngmiǎnyǔ yǔyīn hé cíhuì 藏缅语语音和词汇 [Tibeto-Burman Phonology and Lexicon] (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe.
  • Minyak language elementary textbook[permanent dead link], a project of the Kham Aid Foundation, 2009.


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