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(Redirected from Cai-Long languages) Group of Sino-Tibetan languages of western Guizhou, China
Cai–Long
Ta–Li
(tentative)
Geographic
distribution		western Guizhou, China
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologtali1265

The Cai–Long (Chinese: 蔡龙语支) or Ta–Li languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in western Guizhou, China. Only Caijia is still spoken, while Longjia and Luren are extinct. The branch was first recognized by Chinese researchers in the 1980s, with the term Cai–Long (Chinese: 蔡龙语支) first mentioned in Guizhou (1982: 43).

The languages are unclassified within Sino-Tibetan, and could be Sinitic or Macro-Bai.

Languages

The Cai–Long languages are:

In addition, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, through their Glottolog database, proposes that Longjia and Luren form a Longjia–Luren branch within Cai–Long.

Lexical innovations

Hölzl (2021) proposes the name Ta–Li as a portmanteau of the two lexical innovations ‘two’ and ‘pig’, respectively.

Language ‘two’ ‘pig’
Caijia (Hezhang) ta li
Luren (Qianxi) ta li
Longjia (Pojiao/Huaxi) ta lɛ

See also

References

  1. ^ Hölzl, Andreas. 2021. Longjia (China) - Language Contexts. Language Documentation and Description 20, 13-34.
  2. GMSWSB 1982 = Guizhousheng minzu shiwu weiyuanhui shibie bangongshi 贵州省民族事务委员会识别办公室. Guizhou minzu shibie ziliaoji 贵州民族识别资料集, vol. 8, longjia, caijia 龙家，蔡家. Guiyang. (Unpublished manuscript.)
  3. Zhèngzhāng Shàngfāng . 2010. Càijiāhuà Báiyǔ guānxì jí cígēn bǐjiào . In Pān Wǔyún and Shěn Zhōngwěi (eds.). Yánjūzhī Lè, The Joy of Research , II, 389–400. Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Longjia-Luren". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-09-13. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
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