Muji or Muzi is a
Loloish language cluster
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spoken by the
Phula people
Phula is a village in Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India
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of
China
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. It is one of several such languages to go by the name ''Muji''. Muji varieties are Northern Muji, Qila Muji, Southern Muji, and Bokha–Phuma.
The representative Southern Muji dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Pujiazhai (普家寨), Adebo Township (阿德博乡),
Jinping County.
Qila Muji is spoken in the following three villages:
*Qila (期腊
) Laojizhai Township (老集寨乡), southern Jinping County, China
*Wantan, Jinshuihe Township 金水河镇, southern Jinping County, China
*Muong Gong, northwestern
Lai Châu Province
Lai or LAI may refer to:
Abbreviations
* Austrian Latin America Institute (Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut)
* '' Latin American Idol'', TV series
* La Trobe Institute, Melbourne, Australia
* Leaf area index, leaf area of a crop or ...
, Vietnam
Phonology
Qila dialect has velar lateral affricates , , .
References
Further reading
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Loloish languages
Languages of China
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