Muong language

E216901

The Muong language is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Muong people of northern Vietnam, closely related to Vietnamese and written using a Latin-based script.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Muong language canonical 2
Mường languages 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
language
belongsTo Vietic branch of Austroasiatic
closelyRelatedTo Vietnamese
surface form: Vietnamese language
country Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
countryOfficialStatus recognized minority language in Vietnam
dialect Hoa Binh Muong
Phu Tho Muong
Son La Muong
Thanh Hoa Muong
endonym Mường people
surface form: Mường
ethnicGroup Muong
family Austroasiatic
geneticRelationship sister language of Vietnamese
glottocode muon1243
hasDialects true
hasPhonemicTones true
hasStandardOrthography partially standardized Latin-based orthography
hasTones true
historicalScript Vietnamese chữ Quốc ngữ–based adaptations
ISO639-3 mfg
languageBranch Viet–Muong
lexicalSimilarity high with Vietnamese
linguisticArea Southeast Asia linguistic area
surface form: Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
morphologyType isolating
phonologicalFeature complex tone system influenced by Vietnamese
primaryRegion northern Vietnam
region Hòa Bình Province
surface form: Hoa Binh Province

Ninh Binh Province
Phu Tho Province
Son La province
surface form: Son La Province

Thanh Hoa Province
Yen Bai Province
Central Vietnam
surface form: north-central Vietnam

northwestern Vietnam
script Latin script
spokenBy Mường people
surface form: Muong people
status minority language in Vietnam
subfamily Vietic languages
tonalLanguage true
typology analytic language
usedIn folk songs of the Muong people
ritual chants of the Muong people
traditional Muong oral literature
usesDiacritics true
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin-based orthography

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mon-Khmer hasLanguage Muong language
Vietic languages hasMember Muong language
this entity surface form: Mường languages
Muong primaryLanguage Muong language