Azha language
Azha is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.
| Azha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | 53,000 (2007)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aza |
| Glottolog | azha1235[2] |
Innovations
In Azha, the words for ‘goat’, ‘eat’, and ‘drink’ are innovative (Pelkey 2011:377). Luojiayi Azha[3] /mɛ33 xɛ33/ ‘goat’, /la̠45/ ‘eat’, /ŋɨ33/ ‘drink’ are not derived from Proto-Ngwi *(k)-citL ‘goat’, *dza² ‘eat’, and *m-daŋ¹ ‘drink’.
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References
- Azha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Azha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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