Mulam
[aka Mulao, Molao, Mulou]Classification: Tai-Kadai
·endangered
Classification: Tai-Kadai
·endangered
Mulao, Molao, Mulou, Muliao, Mulao Miao, Abo, 仫佬語 |
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Tai-Kadai, Kam-Tai, Lakkia-Kam-Sui, Kam-Sui |
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mlm |
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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
One of China’s 55 recognised nationalities; distinct from the Kadai group Mulao, written with a different first character, but a few Kadai Mulao speakers have been included in the Mulam/Mulao nationality.
Mainly Luocheng County, north central Guangxi Province
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
210,000
"Fewer than 10,000 monolinguals (including women and preschool children)." Data for the number of native speakers comes from Guangxi Language and Orthography Use Situation (2005). Data for the ethnic population is from the 2000 census.