Mantsi language

Mantsi
Mantsi
mã53 tsi53
Native to	Lo Lo, ethnic population: 4,800 (2019)
Native speakers	1,100 (2002)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Mantsi; ; ;
Dialects	Mantsi (Vietnam and China); Mondzi (Ma21 Ndʑi21, China); Munji (China);
Writing system	Yi script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; nty – All dialects
Glottolog	mant1265 Mantsi

Mantsi (autonym: mã53 tsi53; also called Lô Lô, Flowery Lolo, White Lolo or Black Lolo, is a

ethnic groups in Vietnam

.

Classification

Mantsi may be related to the

Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China (Edmondson 2003). Lama (2012) concludes that Mantsi (Mondzi) and Maang constitute the most divergent branch of the Lolo-Burmese languages

.

Distribution

Monji or Mondzi is reportedly spoken in some villages of Muyang Township, Funing County, Yunnan, China.

Munji is reportedly spoken by the Flowery Yi (Lolo) of

Đồng Văn district, Hà Giang province of Vietnam. Both speak similar languages. The language spoken by the Red Lolo was investigated by Jerold A. Edmondson

in the late 1990s.

In Vietnam

The Lô Lô ethnic group of northern Vietnam consists of 3,134 people in Hà Giang and Cao Bằng, also including some in

Lào Cai Province. They are also known as Mùn Di, Di, Màn Di, La La, Qua La, Ô Man, and Lu Lộc Màn.^[2]

Flowery Lolo

Hà Giang Province
- Xín Cái,
  Mèo Vạc District
- Lũng Cù,
  Đồng Văn District

Red Lolo

Hà Giang Province
- Mèo Vạc District
- Yên Minh District

Black Lolo

Bảo Lạc District, Cao Bằng
Province
- Hồng Tri (including Nà Van village [3])
- Đức Hạnh (Bảo Lạc)
- Nghàm Lồm, Cô Ba Township^[3]

Phonology

Phonology of Mondzi:^[4]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Retroflex	Alveolo- palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n				(ŋ)
Plosive/ Affricate	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿʣ	ⁿdʐ	ⁿʥ	ᵑg
	voiced	b	d	ʣ	dʐ	ʥ	g
	voiceless	p	t	ʦ	tʂ	ʨ	k
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	ʦʰ	tʂʰ	ʨʰ	kʰ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s		ʂ	ɕ	x
Fricative	voiced	v	z		ʐ	ʑ	ɣ
Lateral			l

[ŋ] can appear only as a

coda

.

Mondzi also has three consonant clusters: [lg], [lk], [lkʰ].

Vowels

Monophthongs

		Front		Non-front
		unrounded	rounded	Non-front
Syllabic Consonant	loose			ɿ
Syllabic Consonant	tight			ɿ̠
Close		i		u
Close-mid		e	ø	o
Open-mid		ɛ		ɔ
Open		a		ɑ

Diphthongs

	a	e	e̠	ɛ	ɛ̠	o	ɔ	u	i	ɑ
i	ia	ie	ie̠	iɛ	iɛ̠	io	iɔ	iu
y									yi
u		ue							ui	uɑ
e									ei

Tones

IPA	Tone value
˥	55
˦	44
˧	33
˥˧	53
˨˩	21
˩˧	13

References

^ ^a ^b All dialects at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ "Người Lô Lô". Trang tin điện tử của Ủy ban Dân tộc (in Vietnamese). 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
^ ^a ^b Iwasa, Kazue (2003). "A Wordlist of the Ma Ndzi Language". Descriptive and Theoretical Studies in Minority Languages of East and Southeast Asia. ELPR Publications A3-016. Osaka: ELPR. pp. 69–76.
^ Lama (2012)

YYFC (1983) [handwritten manuscript], cited in Lama (2012)
Edmondson, Jerold A. (2003). Three Tibeto-Burman Languages of Vietnam^{[permanent dead link]}. m.s.
Hsiu, Andrew (2014). "Mondzish: A New Subgroup of Lolo-Burmese" (PDF). Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica. pp. 62–81.
Quốc Khánh Vũ (2011). Người Lô Lô ở Việt Nam [The Lo Lo in Vietnam] (in Vietnamese). Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Thông tấn.
Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation (Ph.D. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington.
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[e25-1] All dialects at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] "Người Lô Lô". Trang tin điện tử của Ủy ban Dân tộc (in Vietnamese). 14 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-10-22.

[Iwasa-3] Iwasa, Kazue (2003). "A Wordlist of the Ma Ndzi Language". Descriptive and Theoretical Studies in Minority Languages of East and Southeast Asia. ELPR Publications A3-016. Osaka: ELPR. pp. 69–76.

[4] Lama (2012)

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