Miqie Yi
[aka Yi, Micha, Minqi]Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·threatened
·Classification: Sino-Tibetan
·threatened
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Yi, Micha, Minqi, Lolo, Yi, Miqie, 密岔 |
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Sino-Tibetan, Lolo-Burmese |
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Information from: “Assessing the linguistic vitality of Miqie: An endangered Ngwi (Loloish) language of Yunnan, China” (164-191) . Gao, Katie B. (2015)
13,000
The Miqie people call themselves as "Micha" in Mandarin.
Intermarriage with Han Chinese or other ethnic group has significant impact on the family and village's rate of intergenerational transmission.
Yunnan Mandarin
Eastern Lipo
Nasu
The use of Miqie is largely depending on the specific village context, namely the rate of intermarriage of Miqie with Chinese or other ethnic groups such as Lipo (called Lisu). Most Miqie villages are in a village cluster with other ethnic groups, including Han, Lipo, Lolo, Nasu, Hani, and Miao. Most elders and some middle-age Miqie speak the languages of the groups near their village and as well as Mandarin.
No orthography. Other scripts used (mainly for religious purposes) by other ethnic groups in the area include Yi script (Nasu/Nuosu Yi) and the Pollard Script for Miao/Hmong.
Scattered villages in border region of Luquan and Fumin counties in Kunming City Administration and Wuding and Lufeng counties in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
Classified in the Yi Nationality. Micha and Miqie are autonyms. Moderately closely related to Lipho.
Extinct in some areas, moribund or severely endangered in others, otherwise endangered.
Scattered locations from Fumin, Luquan and Wuding counties north of Kunming, also in various small clusters in Yongren, Dayao, Yaoan and Nanhua counties in west-central Yunnan, and in Jingdong, Zhenyuan and Jinggu counties further south, along the eastern side of the Mekong.
Also formerly spoken in several villages in southern Anning and southwestern Jinning counties south of Kunming, and as far south as one Lahu village at the northern extremity of Thailand, which intermarried with the Miqie
and later moved from Jinggu County to Burma in the early 1950s and in 1971 to Thailand.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
50,000
Speaker number data from (Bradley 2007), decreasing.
No remaining speakers in Jinning and Anning counties; declining elsewhere. Home. Neutral attitudes. Most also use Mandarin Chinese.
Yunnan Province, Wuding (Jincheng, Jiuchang, and Chadian districts), north Fumin, north Lufeng, south Luquan counties, parts of Yongren, Dayao, Yao’an, Nanhua, Jingdong, Zhenyuan, Jinggu, and Yimen counties.