Namuyi language

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The Namuyi language is a lesser-known Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Namuyi people in parts of Sichuan and Yunnan in southwestern China.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Qiangic language
Sino-Tibetan language
natural language
alternativeName Namuyi NERFINISHED
Namuzi NERFINISHED
Namuziyu NERFINISHED
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Prinmi language
Qiang language
country China
endangermentStatus definitely endangered
ethnicity Namuyi people NERFINISHED
glottocode namu1242
hasDialects northern Namuyi
southern Namuyi
hasLinguisticResearchOn morphology
phonology
syntax
hasLoanwordsFrom Chinese NERFINISHED
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant inventory
contrastive aspiration
tone
iso639-3Code nmy
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Qiangic
linguisticArea Sichuan-Yunnan linguistic area
primaryContactLanguage Southwestern Mandarin NERFINISHED
region Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture NERFINISHED
Mianning County NERFINISHED
Muli Tibetan Autonomous County NERFINISHED
Panzhihua NERFINISHED
Yanyuan County NERFINISHED
spokenBy Namuyi people NERFINISHED
spokenByChildren decreasingly
spokenIn China NERFINISHED
Sichuan NERFINISHED
Yunnan NERFINISHED
southwestern China
status endangered language
subjectObjectVerbOrder yes
threatenedBy language shift to Chinese
usedFor oral communication
usedIn folk songs
ritual speech
traditional oral literature
writingSystem no widely used standard writing system

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Qiangic languages hasSubgroup Namuyi language