Muya language

Muya
Munya
Spoken in	China
Region	Sichuan, Tibet
Native speakers	13,000  (date missing)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Qiangic Northern Muya
Dialects	East West
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mvm

Munya or Muya is one of the Qiangic languages spoken in China. There are two dialects, which are not mutually intelligible. Most research on Munya has been conducted by Ikeda Takumi.

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

Bibliography

• Ikeda Takumi (1998-09) "Some Phonological Features of Modern Munya (Minyak) Language." 内陸アジア言語の研究 Nairiku Ajia Gengo no Kenkyuu 13: 83-91.
• Ikeda, T. 2002, "On pitch accent in the Mu-nya language", in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 27–45.