Muong language

Muong language
Mường
Spoken in  Vietnam
Region Southeast Asia
Native speakers 1.2 million  (date missing)
Language family
Austro-Asiatic
  • Vietic
    • Viet–Muong
      • Mường
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mtq

The Mường language is spoken by the Mường people of Vietnam. It is in the Austroasiatic language family and closely related to Vietnamese. It is a tonal language with five tones.

Mường is primarily spoken in mountainous regions of the northern Vietnamese provinces of Hòa Bình, Thanh Hóa, Vĩnh Phúc, Yên Bái, Sơn La, and Ninh Bình.

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