Azha language
Loloish language spoken in China
| Azha | |
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| Native to | China |
Native speakers | 53,000 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aza |
| Glottolog | azha1235 |
Azha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.
Innovations
In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha[2] /mɛ33 xɛ33/ ‘goat’, /la̠45/ ‘eat’, /ŋɨ33/ ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-citL ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.
References
- ^ Azha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ The representative dialect studied in Pelkey (2011) is that of Luojiayi 倮家邑, Binglie Township 秉烈乡, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
- Pelkey, Jamin. 2011. Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Languages of China
- Standard Chinese
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Chinese
- Chinese Sign
- Northern (Beijing) Sign
- Southern (Shanghai) Sign
- Hong Kong SignHK/MC
- Tibetan SignXZ
- GX = Guangxi
- HK = Hong Kong
- MC = Macau
- NM = Inner Mongolia
- XJ = Xinjiang
- XZ = Tibet
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