Mango language (China) explained

Mango
States:China
Ethnicity:Yi
Speakers:50
Date:2014
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Lolo-Burmese
Fam3:Mondzish
Iso3:none
Glotto:mang1429
Glottorefname:Mango (China)

Mango (autonym: pronounced as /ma21 ŋo21/) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by just under 50 people in Guangnan County, Yunnan, China.[1]

Mango is spoken in the two villages of Mumei 木美 (Mango: pronounced as /mei55 te33/) and Zhelai 者赖 (Mango: pronounced as /ɕi55 te33/), both located in Babao Town 八宝镇 (Mango: pronounced as /ba33 wo33/).

Notes and References

  1. 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.