Man Met, or Kemie ( ''Kemiehua''), is a poorly classified
Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1,000 people in
Jinghong County
Jinghong (; khb, ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩩ᩵ᨦ; th, เชียงรุ่ง, , ; lo, ຊຽງຮຸ່ງ; also formerly romanised as ''Chiang Hung'', ''Chengrung'', ''Cheng Hung'', Jeng Hung, ''Jinghung'', ''Keng Hung'', ''Kiang Hung'' and ' ...
,
Xishuangbanna,
China. It is classified as an
Angkuic language by Paul Sidwell (2010). It may be or
Mangic
The Pakanic languages constitute a branch of two Austroasiatic languages, Bolyu and Bugan. They are spoken in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of southern China. Mang was formerly included, but is now considered by Paul Sidwell to form its own ...
according to Li Yunbing (2005), or
Palaungic. Like most other
Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are ...
, Kemie has
subject–verb–object (SVO)
word order
In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how different languages employ different orders. C ...
.
Autonyms include ' (曼咪), ' (克蔑), and ' (克敏),
or ''khaʔ33 min33''.
Distribution
Kemie is spoken in the following villages by just over 1,000 people.
*Jinghong Township (景洪镇)
**Xiaomanmi (小曼咪村, 58 households, 256 persons)
**Damanmi (大曼咪村, 53 households, 234 persons)
**Jiangtou Manmi (江头曼咪村, 33 households, 124 persons)
*Manmi (曼咪村, ''man13 met53'') of Gadong Township (嘎东乡, 51 households, 228 persons)
*Sanjia (三家村) of Mengyang Township (勐养镇, 46 households, 200 persons)
References
Further reading
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External links
* http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
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http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-93F9-9@view Man Met in RWAAI Digital Archive
Palaungic languages
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