Mày language

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Mày
Native toVietnam
EthnicityMay
Native speakers
600 (2013)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologmayy1239

Mày is a

Austroasiatic family. With only several hundred speakers, May is a critically endangered language,[2] with only about half of the estimated ethnic population of 1,228 people able to speak the language.[3]

Distribution

May is spoken in the villages of Ca Oóc, Bai Dinh, and Cha Lo.

xã of Dân Hóa (formerly Trung Hóa), Thượng Hóa, Hóa Tiến, and Hóa Thanh
). Dân Hóa is the only monolingual May village, while the others are mixed with various other ethnic groups.

Phonology

May phonology preserves many archaic features. Syllable structure is sesquisyllabic. Unique phonological characteristics in May include the coda -ɽ, derived from proto-Vietic *-s, which stands behind a consonant nucleus, in contrast to final -l/-h/-i̯ found in most other Vietic languages.[5]

Grammar

The basic word order of May is SVO. A grammar of May was published by Kirill Babaev and Irina Samarina in their 2018 Russian monograph, based on materials collected from the 2013 Russian–Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition, assisted by Dr. Ta Van Thong and Dr. Le Van Truong.[6] The expedition team also produced corpus databases developed by Alexander Yefimov and Paul Sidwell.

Notes

  1. ^ Babaev & Samarina (2021:15)
  2. ^ Babaev & Samarina (2021:19)
  3. ^ Babaev & Samarina (2021:15)
  4. ISBN 978-5-907117-34-1
    . (in Russian). p.16.
  5. ^ Babaev & Samarina (2021:18-19)
  6. ^ Babaev & Samarina (2021:20)

References

  • Babaev, Kirill; Samarina, Irina (2021). Sidwell, Paul (ed.). A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam. Brill.
    ISBN 978-9-00446-108-6
    .
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