Muya language

Muya
Muya
Munya
Native to	China
Region	Sichuan
Native speakers	Eastern: 2,000 (2020); Western: 12,000 (2020)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Qiangic Northern Muya; ; ; ;
Dialects	East; West;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; emq – Eastern Minyag; wmg – Western Minyag
Glottolog	muya1239
ELP	Muya
	Muya is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Munya or Muya (

mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by Ikeda Takumi. There are about 2,000 monolinguals

.

Names

The language has been spelled in various ways, including Manyak, Menya, Minyag, and Minyak. Other names for the language are Boba and Miyao.

Dialects

Ethnologue (21st edition) lists two Muya dialects, namely Eastern (Nyagrong) and Western (Darmdo). Muya is spoken in

Sun (1991) documents Muya (木雅) of

Kangding County (康定县), Sichuan.^[5]

Popular culture

In 2008, Bamu, a singer with the Jiuzhaigou Art Troupe in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, recorded an album of Muya songs (木雅七韵).^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Eastern Minyag at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Western Minyag at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ "Manyak" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-11-02 – via Asia Harvest.
^ "Menia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-10 – via Asia Harvest.
^ "Minyak". places.kmaps.virginia.edu. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
^ Sun (1991), p. 219
^ Huang, Zhiling (2014-05-27). "Chasing the Fading Music". China Daily USA. One woman's passion for the songs of a remote ethnic people may save not only the Muya's music, but the language itself. Huang Zhiling reports from Chengdu. Muya music might already be lost if Yang Hua had not given up her job as a mathematics teacher." ..."After the recording was over, Bamu told Yang it was a folk song of the Muya people. The song told how a girl working outside her hometown misses her mom, who says jewelry does not mean anything if one is not educated, and the singer wishes her mom good health. "It was the first time I heard the word 'Muya'," Yang says.