Katso language

Katso
	Kazhuo
Native to	China
Native speakers	4,000 (1997)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Lolo–Burmese Loloish Kazhuoish[2] Katso; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kaf
Glottolog	kats1235[3]

Katso, also known as Kazhuo (autonyms: kʰɑ55 tso31, kɑ55 tso31; Chinese: 卡卓), is a Loloish language of Xingmeng Township (兴蒙乡), Tonghai County, Yunnan, China. The speakers are officially classified as ethnic Mongols, although they speak a Loloish language.

Katso speakers call themselves kʰɑ55 tso31 (卡卓) or kɑ55 tso31 (嘎卓) (Kazhuoyu Yanjiu).

Lama (2012) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Loloish as Kazhuoish innovations.

*x- > s-
*mr- > z-

References

Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Katso". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Katso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (2012), Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages, thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Katso". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.