Azhe | |
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Pronunciation | |
Native to | China |
Ethnicity | Yi |
Native speakers | ca. 54,000 (2007) |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yiz |
Glottolog | azhe1235 |
Azhe (Chinese: 阿哲; Azhepo; autonym: ) is one of the Loloish languages spoken by the Yi people of China.
Dialects
Wang Chengyou (王成有) (2003:210) 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) (subscription required)
- 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 . By Huang Jianming. Yunnan minzu chubanshe, 1993.
- Wang Chengyou . 2003. Yiyu Fangyan Bijiao Yanjiu . Chengdu: Sichuan People's Press . ISBN 7540927658
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