Azhe language

Azhe (Chinese 阿哲 Azhe; Azhepo; autonym: [a21 dʐɛ22 pʰo21]) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.[3][4]

Azhe
Pronunciation[a˨˩dʐɛ˨pʰo˨˩]
Native toChina
EthnicityYi
Native speakers
ca. 54,000 (2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3yiz
Glottologazhe1235[2]

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.

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References

  1. Azhe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Azhe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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."
  4. 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.
  5. 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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