Mongphu | |
Nativename: | Mongpho |
States: | China |
Ethnicity: | Yi |
Speakers: | ~500 |
Date: | 2015 |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Lolo-Burmese |
Fam3: | Mondzish |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | none |
Mongphu or Mongpho (autonym: pronounced as /mɔŋ55 pʰɤ21/) is a Lolo-Burmese language of Yunnan, China spoken in Lisa 里洒,[1] Guangnan County and in Zhilun 值伦,[2] [3] Upper Zhemei 上者梅,[4] Lower Zhemei 下者梅, and Muyang 木杨 villages of Funing County, Yunnan. There are several hundred speakers. It is likely most closely related to Maza and Mango.[5]