Social:Zauzou language

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Short description: Loloish language spoken in Yunnan, China
Zauzou
Rouruo
Native toChina
RegionYunnan
EthnicityNu
Native speakers
2,100 (2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
Language codes
ISO 639-3zal
Glottologzauz1238[3]
Lang Status 80-VU.svg
Zauzou is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Zauzou (Rouruo 柔若, Jaojo, Raorou; autonym: zau55 zou33) is a Loloish language of Tu'e District (兔峨地区), Lanping County, Yunnan, China. It is most closely related to Nusu.

Distribution

In Tu'e District, Rouruo is spoken in Tu'e (兔峨),[4] Bijifeng (碧鸡风),[5] Wupijiang (吾批江),[6] Guoli (果力),[7] Xiaocun (小村), Jiangmo (江末),[8] and a few other locations.[9] The two major dialects are Guoli (果力) and Jiangmo (江末).[9] Sun (2002) provides extensive vocabulary word lists for the Guoli (果力) and Jiangmo (江末) dialects.

Innovations

Lama (2012) observes a sound change of *r- > Ø from Proto-Loloish as a Nusoish innovation.

References

  1. Zauzou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation (Ph.D. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. p. 145. hdl:10106/11161.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Zauzou". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/zauz1238. 
  4. "Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn Tùé Xiāng Tùé Cūnwěihuì Tùé Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=185041. 
  5. "Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn Tùé Xiāng Tùé Cūnwěihuì Bìjīlán Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=185043. 
  6. "Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn Tùé Xiāng Tùé Cūnwěihuì Wúpíjiāng Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=185042. 
  7. "Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn Tùé Xiāng Guǒlì Cūnwěihuì Guǒlì Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=185047. 
  8. "Lánpíng Báizú Pǔmǐzú Zìzhìxiàn Tùé Xiāng Jiāngmò Cūnwěihuì Jiāngmò Cūn" (in zh). http://www.ynszxc.gov.cn/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=185076. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Sun (2002)

Works cited

  • Sun, Hongkai 孙宏开 (2002) (in zh). Róuruòyǔ yánjiū. Beijing Shi: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.