Maza is spoken by about 50 people in the village of Mengmei 孟梅 (Maza: qʰa33le55), Puyang Village 普阳村, Muyang Township 木央乡,
Funing County, Yunnan. Maza has a
Qabiao substratum, since the area was originally inhabited by Qabiao speakers (Hsiu 2014:68-69). Maza displays
circumfixal negation, a syntactic feature that is usually typical of
Kra languages.
References
^Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "
Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.