Man Met language

Man Met
Kemie
Native toChina
RegionSouthwest Yunnan
Native speakers
(900 cited 1990)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mml – Man Met
kfj – Kemie (duplicate code)
Glottologkemi1240  Kemiehua
manm1238  Man Met
ELPMan Met

Man Met, or Kemie (Chinese: 克蔑话 Kemiehua), is a poorly classified Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1,000 people in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna, China. It is classified as an Angkuic language by Paul Sidwell (2010). It may be or Mangic according to Li Yunbing (2005),[2] or Palaungic. Like most other Austroasiatic languages, Kemie has subject–verb–object (SVO) word order.

Autonyms include man13 met53 (曼咪), kʰɤ31 met53 (克蔑), and kʰɤ31 miŋ33 (克敏),[3] or khaʔ33 min33.[4]

  1. ^ Man Met at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kemie (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Li, Yunbing 李云兵 (2005). Bùgēngyǔ yánjiū 布赓语研究 [A Study of Bugeng [Bugan]] (in Chinese). Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
  3. ^ Chen (2005), p. 1
  4. ^ Yan & Zhou (2012), p. 154