Maza language

{{Short description|Lolo-Burmese language of China}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Maza

|nativename=

|states=China

|ethnicity=Yi

|speakers=50

|date=2014

|ref=Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "[http://iscll-14.ling.sinica.edu.tw/files-pdf/Papers/Session2/Hsiu.pdf Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese]". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Lolo-Burmese

|fam3=Mondzish

|iso3=none

|glotto=maza1306

|glottorefname=Maza

}}

Maza (autonym: {{IPA|ma33 zɑ53}}) is a Lolo-Burmese language spoken by the Yi people of China.

Maza is spoken by about 50 people in the village of Mengmei 孟梅 (Maza: {{IPA|qʰa33 le55}}), Puyang Village 普阳村, Muyang Township 木央乡, Funing County, Yunnan. Maza has a Qabiao substratum, since the area was originally inhabited by Qabiao speakers (Hsiu 2014:68-69). Maza displays circumfixal negation, a syntactic feature that is usually typical of Kra languages.