Maza | |
States: | China |
Ethnicity: | Yi |
Speakers: | 50 |
Date: | 2014 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Lolo-Burmese |
Fam3: | Mondzish |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | maza1306 |
Glottorefname: | Maza |
Maza (autonym: pronounced as /ma33 zɑ53/) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by the Yi people of China.
Maza is spoken by about 50 people in the village of Mengmei 孟梅 (Maza: pronounced as /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.