Mo Piu (Mơ Piu) is an unclassified Hmongic language spoken in the village of Nậm Tu Thượng, Nậm Xé Township, western Văn Bàn District, Lào Cai Province.[2] It was first documented in 2009 by a team of French linguists as part of the MICA Institute's "Au Co" Project.
| Mo Piu | |
|---|---|
| Mơ Piu | |
| Native to | Vietnam |
| Region | Lào Cai Province |
Native speakers | 240 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Geneviève Caelen-Haumont reported 237 speakers as of 2011. She notes that Mo Piu is highly divergent from neighbouring Hmongic languages in Vietnam.[1]
Ly Van Tu & Vittrant (2014) tentatively classify Mo Piu as a Guiyang Miao dialect.[3]
References
Further reading
- Caelen-Haumont, Geneviève; Sam, Sethserey (2012). Comparison Between Two Models of Language for the Automatic Phonetic Labeling of an Undocumented Language of the South-Asia: The Case of Mo Piu (PDF). Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: May 23-24-25, 2012, Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention & Exhibition Center. Paris: European Language Resources Association. pp. 956–962. ISBN 978-2-9517408-7-7.
- Caelen-Haumont, Geneviève (2012). Towards the Mo Piu Tonal System: First Results on an Undocumented South-Asian Language (PDF). Speech Prosody 2012.
External links
- Mơ Piu darta of Geneviève Caelen-Haumont and Jean-Pierre Salmon on the Speech & Language Data Repository (SLDR) website
- http://crdo.up.univ-aix.fr/crdoRAID/preview/000013/Rapport.pdf[permanent dead link]