Mauphu audio word list

<p>Recorded on May 6, 2015.<br> <br> &quot;Mauphu&quot; (autonym: mau&sup2;&sup1;pʰu&sup3;⁵) is spoken by only about 20 speakers in the single village of Dagulu 大咕噜, Guangnan County, Yunnan, China. Middle-aged speakers remember a few phrases.<br> <br> My informant was Dai Baizhi 代柏芝 (born May 30, 1947; 68 years old), who used to be a schoolteacher.<br> <br> Mauphu and Motang have different phrases for &#39;eat rice&#39;.</p> <ul> <li>zei21 sei33 (Mauphu)</li> <li>haŋ33 tsu33 (Motang)</li> </ul> <p>Mauphu has some words beginning with ts- where other Mondzish languages have s- instead, suggesting that Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ts- &gt; s was an innovation that spread after Mondzish diversified, but did not originate in Proto-Mondzish.</p> <p>Mauphu and Motang are closely related languages, and form a group (or pair) within Mondzish.</p>