Mo Piu language explained

Mo Piu
Also Known As:	Mơ Piu
States:	Vietnam
Region:	Lào Cai Province
Date:	2011
Familycolor:	Hmong-Mien
Fam2:	Hmongic
Fam3:	West Hmongic?
Fam4:	Guiyang Miao?
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	none

Mo Piu (Mơ Piu) is an unclassified Hmongic language spoken in the village of Nậm Tu Thượng, Nậm Xé Township, western Văn Bàn District, Lào Cai Province.^[1] It was first documented in 2009 by a team of French linguists as part of the MICA Institute's "Au Co" Project.

Geneviève Caelen-Haumont reported 237 speakers as of 2011. She notes that Mo Piu is highly divergent from neighbouring Hmongic languages in Vietnam.^[2]

Ly Van Tu & Vittrant (2014) tentatively classify Mo Piu as a Guiyang Miao dialect.^[3]

Further reading

• Caelen-Haumont . Geneviève . Sam . Sethserey . 2012 . Comparison Between Two Models of Language for the Automatic Phonetic Labeling of an Undocumented Language of the South-Asia: The Case of Mo Piu . Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: May 23-24-25, 2012, Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention & Exhibition Center . Paris . European Language Resources Association . 956–962 . 978-2-9517408-7-7 . en.
• Caelen-Haumont . Geneviève . 2012 . Towards the Mo Piu Tonal System: First Results on an Undocumented South-Asian Language . Speech Prosody 2012 . en.

External links

• Mơ Piu darta of Geneviève Caelen-Haumont and Jean-Pierre Salmon on the Speech & Language Data Repository (SLDR) website
• http://crdo.up.univ-aix.fr/crdoRAID/preview/000013/Rapport.pdf

Notes and References

1. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=22.05,104.0166&output=kml 22.05 N, 104.0166 E
2. Caelen-Haumont . Geneviève . 2012 . Towards the Tonal System of An Unknown Language from South-East Asia: A Deeper Insight . TAL 2012 ̶ Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages Nanjing, China, May 26–29, 2012 . en.
3. Ly Van Tu . Jean-Cyrille . Vittrant . Alice . 2014 . Place of Mơ Piu in the Hmong Group: A Proposal . Paper presented at SEALS 24, Yangon, Myanmar . en.