Alternate Names: Boba, Manyak, Menya, Minyag, Minyak, Miyao, Munya
Dialects: Eastern Muya, Western Muya. Dialects reportedly not mutually inherently intelligible. Loanwords from Tibetan and Chinese.
Status Notes: Language of recognized nationality: Tibetan.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 10,000 (Bradley 2007), decreasing. 2,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 15,000 (Bradley 2007).
Language Use: All village domains. All ages. Neutral attitudes. 3,000 also use Khams Tibetan [khg]. In the west, they tend to be more fluent in Tibetan. 7,000 also use Mandarin Chinese [cmn]. In the east, they tend to be more fluent in Chinese.
Language Development: Videos. Dictionary. OT.
Typology: SOV; adjectives and number-classifier constructions follow noun heads; compounding; affixation; reduplication; consonant cluster onsets; tense-lax vowel distinction; nasalized vowels; tonal, 4 tones.
Nation of Origin: China
Other Comments: Consider themselves Tibetan. Proper Tibetan Wylie spelling: Minyag. Buddhist (Lamaist).