Social:Azhe language
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Short description: Loloish language of China
| Azhe | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | [a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩] |
| Native to | China |
| Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | ca. 54,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yiz |
| Glottolog | azhe1235[2] |
Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: [a21 dʐɛ22 pʰo21]) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China .[3][4]
Dialects
Wang Chengyou (王成有) (2003:210)[5] lists 3 dialects of Azhe, which are all mutually intelligible.
- Wushan 五山土语 (in Mile County 弥勒县)
- Xunjian 巡检, Mile County 弥勒县
- Hongxi 虹溪, Mile County 弥勒县
- Panxi 盘溪, Huaning County 华宁县
- Jiangbian 江边土语 (in Mile County 弥勒县)
- Qujiang 曲江土语 (in Jianshui County 建水县)
Azhe is spoken in Mile, Huaning, Kaiyuan, and Jianshui counties, with about 100,000 speakers.
References
- ↑ Azhe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Azhe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/azhe1235.
- ↑ Halina Wasilewska in ed. Nathan Hill Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV 2012 Page 449 "... the writing as the basis and which corresponds to the classification of the Yi languages, present day traditional Yi writing can be sub-divided into five main varieties (Huáng Jiànmíng 1993), i.e. the Nuosu, Nasu, Nisu, Sani and Azhe varieties."
- ↑ 黄建明 Huáng Jiànmíng 彝族古籍文献概要 1993 Yizu guji wenxian gaiyao [Outline of classical literature of Yi nationality]. By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.
- ↑ Wang Chengyou [王成有]. 2003. Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu [彝语方言比较研究]. Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press [四川民族出版社]. ISBN:7540927658
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