Na (or Narua, Mosuo) is a language of the
Naish subbranch of the
Naic
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group of the
Sino-Tibetan languages
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.
Varieties
Yongning Na, which is spoken in
Yongning Township,
Ninglang County
Ninglang Yi Autonomous County (; ii, ꆀꆿꆈꌠꊨꏦꏱꅉꑤ nip lat nuo su zyt jie jux dde xiep) is located in the northwest of Yunnan province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the northeast. It is under the administration of Lijiang C ...
,
Lijiang
Lijiang (), also known as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Guchen ...
,
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...
,
China, has been documented by Jacques and Michaud (2011).
Lataddi Narua is notable for having only two
tonal levels.
[Dobbs, Roselle, and La Mingqing. 2016 "The two-level tonal system of Lataddi Narua." ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'', Vol. 39:1 (2016), 67–104. ]
References
Qiangic languages
Languages of China
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