Micha language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language of Yunnan, China}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Micha
|altname=Michie
|nativename=Central Yi
|region=Yunnan
|states=China
|ethnicity=>1,000 (1999){{Cite web |title=Micha |url=https://people-groups.asiaharvest.org/China/chinaPeoples/M/Micha.pdf |access-date=2021-11-03 |website=Asia Harvest}} to 50,000 Yi (2007)
|speakers=30,000
|date=2007
|ref=e18
|speakers2=(assuming an ethnic population of 50,000)
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=Lolo–Burmese
|fam4=Loloish
|fam5=Lisoish
|fam6=Lisu–Lalo ?
|fam7=Micha
|iso3=yiq
|glotto=miqi1235
|glottorefname=Miqie
}}
Micha, or Miqie ({{zh|s=密察语|p=Mìcháyǔ}}; autonym: {{IPA|mi˥tɕʰe˨˩ pʰo˨˩}}Yunnan Province Ethnic Minority Languages Gazetteer (云南省志：少数民族语言文字志) (1997), p.30), is a Loloish language of Yunnan. Its usage is declining.
Classification
Distribution
Micha is spoken by about 9,000 persons in north-central Yunnan, in Wuding County, Luquan County, and Fumin County.
- Wuding County: Shedianxiaocun, Yongtaoxiacun, Yongtaozhongcun, Yangliuhe, Maichacun, Wodudacun, Woduxincun, Shuiduifang, Shanjudacun, Shanjuxiacun, Yangjiacun, Luomian, Xiagubai, Yanziwo, Shudecun, Dacun, Xincun, Baisha, Dashiban, Puxi Xincun, Yangliuhe, Nanshancun, Maidishan, Daxinzhuang, Yangjiucun, Nuomizha, Bizu
- Luquan County: Shanglaowu, Xiashihuiyao, Qinglongqing, Bailike, Yantang, Pingtian, Damituo, Xicun
- Fumin County: Madishangcun, Madixiacun, Madishaocun
According to the Nanjian County Gazetteer (1993), Micha (密岔) is also spoken in Nanjian County, around Aliwu (阿里勿){{Cite web |title=Nánjiàn Yízú Zìzhìxiàn Bǎohuá Zhèn Yúnhuá Cūnwěihuì Ālǐwù |script-title=zh:南涧彝族自治县宝华镇云华村委会阿里勿 |trans-title=Aliwu, Yunhua Village Committee, Baohua Town, Nanjian Yi Autonomous County |url=http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=261829 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219110545/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=261829 |archive-date=2014-12-19 |website=ynszxc.gov.cn |language=zh}} and Santaishan (三台山),{{Cite web |title=Nánjiàn Yízú Zìzhìxiàn Nánjiàn Zhèn Bǎo'ān Cūnwěihuì Sāntáishān |script-title=zh:南涧彝族自治县南涧镇保安村委会三台山 |trans-title=Santaishan, Baoan Village Committee, Nanjian Town, Nanjian Yi Autonomous County |url=http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=48070 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219110619/http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=48070 |archive-date=2014-12-19 |access-date=2014-12-07 |website=ynszxc.gov.cn |language=zh}} southeast of Dali.
References
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Further reading
- Gao, Katie Butler. 2014. “Phonological Sketch and Classification of Micha: A Central Ngwi language of Yunnan.” Presented at the 47th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Oct 2014. Yunnan Normal University. Kunming, China.
- Gao, Katie B. 2015. "[http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24640 Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China]." Language Documentation & Conservation 9. 164-191.
- Gao, Katie B. 2017. [http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/GAO_Katie_Final_Dissertation.pdf Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Variation in Yunnan]. PhD Dissertation: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
- Nanjian County Gazetteer Commission [南涧县志编纂委员会编] (ed). 1993. Nanjian County Gazetteer [南涧彝族自治县志]. Chengdu: Sichuan Reference Press [四川辞书出版社].
External links
- [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/33422 An open access collection of Micha recordings] are available through Kaipuleohone.
{{Languages of China}}
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Lolo-Burmese languages}}