Social:Katso language

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Short description: Loloish language spoken in China
Katso
Kazhuo
Native toChina
Native speakers
(4,000 cited 1997)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kaf
Glottologkats1235[3]

Katso, also known as Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ˥tso˧˩, kɑ˥tso˧˩; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers are officially classified as ethnic Mongols, although they speak a Loloish language.

Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ˥tso˧˩ (卡卓) or kɑ˥tso˧˩ (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).

Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.

  • *x- > s-
  • *mr- > z-

References

  1. Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Katso". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kats1235. 

Further reading

  • Donlay, Chris. A Grammar of Khatso. De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. ISBN:978-31-105-7693-1