Mulam | |
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Native to | China |
Region | Luocheng County, Hechi, Northern Guangxi |
Ethnicity | 210,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 86,000 (2005)[1] < 10,000 monolinguals |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mlm |
Glottolog | mula1253 |
ELP | Mulam |
Mulam is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
The Mulam language (Chinese: 仫佬; pinyin: Mùlǎo) is a Kam–Sui language spoken mainly in Luocheng County, Hechi, Northern Guangxi by the Mulao people. The greatest concentrations are in Dongmen and Siba communes. Their autonym is mu6 lam1.[2] The Mulam also call themselves kjam1, which is probably cognate with lam1 and the Dong people's autonym "Kam" (Wang & Zheng 1980).