Miju (Kùmán)

Miju is a spoken in Lohit District of Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast of India. There are also some Miju speakers in Zayü County of Tibet in China. Miju is possibly a Sino-Tibetan language, or a language isolate. In 2006 there were 18,000 speakers of Miju, which is also known as Kaman, Geman, Geman Deng, Miju Mishmi or Midzu. In China the Miju people are known as Deng (僜人).

Miju alphabet and pronunciation

Notes

Tone are indicated as follows: á = high tone [-˦˥], ā = middle tone [-˧], à = falling tone [-˨˩]
f, nh and z are only used in loanwords and Foreign names

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Information compiled by Wolfram Siegel

Links

Information about Miju
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miju_language
http://www.academia.edu/20110552/Reading_and_writing_Kman
http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/miju1243
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mxj

Sino-Tibetan languages

Angami, Bai, Darmiya, Galo, Miju, Rawang, Tangut, Thangmi, Tujia

Page last modified: 23.04.21

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