Social:Chesu language
| Chesu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | 3,300 (2007)e25 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ych |
| Glottolog | ches1238[1] |
Chesu 车苏 is a Loloish language spoken in southern Shuangbai County, northern Xinping County, and Eshan County in Yunnan, China.
The Chesu refer to themselves as tsuX[clarification needed]su˧pa˨˩[2] or tɕi˨˩su˥pʰo˨˩ (Jishupo 吉输颇).[3] Yunnan (1955) reports that Chesu is spoken mostly in Taihe Township 太和乡, with a population of over 360 as of 1955.[2] Ethnologue reports 3,300 Chesu speakers out of an ethnic population of 6,600 people, as of 2007.[4]
Bradley (2007) reports that Chesu is closely related to Nasu and classifies it as a Nasoid language. Chesu speakers consider themselves to be a separate ethnic group from the surrounding Nisu speakers. The Chesu language is currently being replaced by Nisu and Chinese.[5] Chesu is also used as a second language by Hlersu speakers.[4]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Chesu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ches1238.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 云南民族识别参考资料 (1955), p.40
- ↑ Long Luogui 龙倮贵. 2007. Honghe yizu zuyuan zucheng ji qi renkou fenbu 红河彝族族源族称及其人口分布 .
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namede25 - ↑ Bradley, David. 2007. East and Southeast Asia. In Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
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