Micha, or Miqie (;

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: '), is a

Loloish language The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of 50–100 Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of Southwestern China. They are most closely related to Bur ...

Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...

. Its usage is declining.

Classification

Micha (' or ') is most closely related to Lipo, Lolopo, and

Lisu Lisu may refer to: *Lisu people, an ethnic group of the mountainous regions of Yunnan (China), Arunachal Pradesh (India), northern Myanmar and Thailand *Lisu language, Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Lisu people **Fraser script or Old Lisu A ...

.Gao 2014 The autonym ' is used by Lalo speakers, and should not be confused with Micha.

Distribution

Micha is spoken by about 9,000 persons in north-central Yunnan, in

Wuding County Wuding County (; Yi script, Chuxiong Yi script: , International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) is under the administration of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the north-central part of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the ...

Luquan County Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County (; A-Hmao: ) is an autonomous county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, Yunnan, China, bordering Sichuan province to the north. As of the 2020 census the population was 378,881. The county seat has two bus st ...

, and

Fumin County Fumin County () is a county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, Yunnan, China. It borders Panlong District, Wuhua District, Songming County and Xundian County to the east, Luquan County to the north, Lufeng, Yunnan and Wuding County to the w ...

. *

: 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 *

: Shanglaowu, Xiashihuiyao, Qinglongqing, Bailike, Yantang, Pingtian, Damituo, Xicun *

: Madishangcun, Madixiacun, Madishaocun According to the ''Nanjian County Gazetteer'' (1993), Micha (密岔) is also spoken in

Nanjian County Nanjian Yi Autonomous County () is a county in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture located in northwestern Yunnan province, southwest China. It borders Midu County to the east, Jingdong County and Yun County to the south, Fengqing County to the w ...

, around Aliwu (阿里勿) and Santaishan (三台山), southeast of Dali.

References

External links

An open access collection of Micha recordings
are available through

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

. {{Lolo-Burmese languages Loloish languages Languages of Yunnan Endangered Sino-Tibetan languages

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