Southern Muji
[aka Aga, Khlaka, Lahi]Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·vulnerable
- DATE OF INFO
- 2005
- DOMAINS OF USE
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- SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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People speak Southern Muji in daily life and is learned by children as their L1.
- SPEAKER ATTITUDE
- positive
- GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
- no
- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
- no
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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(Southwestern) Mandarin; Hani
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Southern Muji is the medium of daily life communication, and is normally learned by children as L1. Community announcements and meetings are all in Southern Muji. But some children living in Jinhezhen (金河鎮), near Jinping County (金平縣), Yunnan Province (雲南省), can't speak Southern Muji at all. People over age 7, as long as they go to school, they start to learn Mandarin, the official language of China. One third of male Southern Muji living in Pujiazhai (普家寨) of Yunnan Province can also speak Hani.
- Scripts (Writing system)
- no
- PLACES
- Yunnan Province of China
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
mainly dwelling in Shayipo, Dazhai and Adebo Townships of northern Jinping County; also in Tongchang Township of southwestern Jinping County, Fengchuling Township of eastern Yuanyang County, southeastern Shuitian Township of southern Mengzi County, Manhao Township of southeastern Gejiu County. There are two Southern Muji speaking villages in Lai Chau Province in Vietnam.